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 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer 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 Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 43%
One on one interview: 29%
Skills test: 29%
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Initial technical assessment utilizing CoderPad. Upon successful completion, candidates are moved into the "full loop", which consists of 4 consecutive interviews. The first two are coding intensive, the third is centered around system design, and the last is behavioral.
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Question 1
Coding questions assess one's familiarity with data structures and when to use each. Understanding time and space complexity is important. Behavioral questions are of the "Describe a situation when..." nature.
Standard process as you will expect, didn’t get too far unfortunately. First step is to complete the application with a cv and a cover letter. All the first steps are online
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Oct 2023
Interview
Had go through 2 rounds of screening, and then a full round of interviews (2 more rounds of coding, system design, and behavioral). The behavioral was run by an interviewer who was not fluent in English and hardly paying attention, and the horrible communication between the recruiter and I felt like I was being set up to fail this. Overall, felt like a huge waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Because I had to go through 4 rounds of coding, there were 8 questions total, and I don't remember all of them. Of them all, I remember: least common node in binary tree, sliding window question, no DP. I got asked the LRU cache question twice, they really like that question