Software Developer 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 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Developer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 43%
Skills test: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I first can an email from a recruiter who helped me to arranged 2 phone interviews using skype. The interviewers are two current software engineers. After the phone interview, I was informed that I cannot proceed the interview process.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2013
Interview
After being contacted by the recruiter, I had a technical phone interview, and was then flown on-site for a detailed interview. The overall experience was excellent, with enthusiastic, encouraging people. All accommodation and transportation costs were covered. The interviews were of one of the following types: coding, cultural fit or architectural design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you query for all the Places near a given coordinate? The focus is on how to scale this to a large number of places while keeping response time to within acceptable user expectacions.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2012
Interview
A recruiter has contacted me through linked-in, asked whether I'll be interested to work for them, then had a talk about why would I like to work for them and I replied: that I would like to work with the best engineers.
Afterward I had a phone interview with some engineer, asked me to write binary search, when I finished, he asked me to write binary search on a shifted array (10 20 1 2 3 4). Wrote that and then asked me to find the offset (2) in log n. I guess I did that ok and then I was invited to onsite interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had 4 consecutive interviews: first one was a general talk about my experience, second was to write a json beautifer, third was to design their newsfeed, and last was to write a program that prints all subsets of size k of a given set with n integers.