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Meta interviews FAQs
Software Engineer- Early Career 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 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer- Early Career roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 3 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- Early Career according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Skills test: 17%
Drug test: 8%
Personality test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 8%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Full day virtual on-site; 3 technical ~60 min each, with one behavioral ~45 min squeezed in. Behavioral was with another SDE so I was able to use technical jargon. Got a call back within the week requiring a follow up which was a 90 minute technical interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typically Medium LeetCode, but a couple Easy questions that required a Medium-ish level answer
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Boston, MA) in Mar 2025
Interview
Software screening call followed by a day of 4 interviews for coding, behavior, and system design. Recruiter pretty active in sending material which I should have reviewed before the system design call.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2021
Interview
I first went through an initial phone screen, and then was invited back for a follow up interview. I was soon after informed that they wouldn't be moving forward with the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First one focused on arrays, involving some math logic.
The second was a string problem, where I had to read a string in order to understand what characters should be in the string I would create and return.