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      Software Engineer Interview

      Sep 8, 2017
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience

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      I interviewed at Meta

      Interview

      Did a phone screen, then a full-day interview loop, then was asked to do *another* phone screen. I had a great on-site (probably one of the best of my career; I got the correct answer to *every question* with time to spare), but it didn't matter: second phone screen was a disaster. The call was delayed due to a technical problem, the guy barely spoke english, and he was annoyed from the start. I got the DYHQFM early-end-of-interview signal despite writing a correct solution, and was rejected shortly thereafter. Overall, Facebook's interview process is marginally more humane than the other big players, but just as idiotic and random. Solving the problems and correctly writing them on a whiteboard whilst singing and dancing is insufficient -- if you make *any* mistakes, you will fail. If an interviewer is having a bad day, you will fail. If an interviewer doesn't feel like doing interviews today, you will fail. If someone feels like failing you because you're too old or not wearing a hoodie or they don't like your voice, you will fail. The recruiters will tell you all sorts of nonsense about how people are looking for "how you think" and that they understand that candidates are nervous and blah, blah blah...these are lies. It's random, and it's biased strongly toward failure. You're probably going to fail, regardless of performance. Basically, if you're demonstrably a really good engineer, flip a coin seven times. If you get all heads, you get a job. Otherwise, you fail. I'm tired of hearing Facebook complain about not being able to find qualified people. They probably reject more great engineers for random reasons in a single day than most companies see in a year.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      depth-first search in a matrix.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      generate strings for a phone number.
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      implement binary search
      Answer question

      Question 4

      leetcode regex question.
      Answer question
      17

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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 9, 2026
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      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

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      The process is straightforward and designed to help us get to know each other. It moves through a few stages at a comfortable pace, involves conversations with several team members, and focuses on making sure it's a good mutual fit.

      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 8, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

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      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta

      Interview

      Had an initial recuriter call and then scheduled a coding round with 2 leetcode questions. Practicing Meta-tagged leetcode questions would help prepare for this round. Interviewers expect clear communication and code.

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      Meta interviews FAQs

      • Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 2,266 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 31 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Engineer according to 2,266 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  39%

        One on one interview:  24%

        Skills test:  15%

        Presentation:  8%

        Background check:  4%

        Group panel interview:  3%

        Personality test:  3%

        IQ intelligence test:  2%

        Drug test:  1%

        Other:  1%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

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        2. Data Scientist(527) ;
        3. Senior Software Engineer(491) ;
        4. Product Manager(392) ;
        5. Software Engineer(Internship)(354) ;
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        12. Software Engineer Intern(229) ;
        13. Production Engineer(222) ;
        14. Research Scientist(219) ;
        15. Technical Recruiter(215) .


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