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%
Skills test: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
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Referred by someone at New York headquarter. Phone interview at the first round. Need to code and run online judge after the code has been completed. Have not heard from the feedback yet after 1 day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Return the sum of node values at each level of binary tree
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jul 2017
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn, first we had a call so they get to know me, then I sent my resume and my phone number and we scheduled a phone technical interview with one of facebook engineers, i asked for two weeks to prepare myself.
Recruiter sent me preparation material, including videos , posts, and some tips
They want you to be at your best, and they want you to know what to expect so you can be ready with no surprises, also you can contact them in case you have any question.
when the day of the interview arrived i wasn't completely ready and i got really really nervious.
for some reason i couldn't receive the call on my cell phone so i got it on my home phone, with de phone between my ear and shoulder.
i live in mexico so i'm not really used to speak english a lot, the first 3 minutes i was catching the conversation like 2 or 3 seconds later, but it's ok for you to ask your interviewer to slow down a little . if it's not your first language it could be useful to start speaking english around 10 minutes before your interview
So the interview began straight to the technical questions, i leave the questions in the questions section, we shared a web editor named code pad, you can choose whatever language you code best in.
in the first question i had some mistakes and then i realized it was incomplete,
actually i came with a good solution for both questions some minutes after the interview was already over.
if you are really used to some IDE that points out when you are not using some variable or have a syntax error it could be useful to use a simple notepad a few days before.
the second question was easier than the first one but i failed to come up with a good solution in terms of time complexity
we discuss each solution as i was coding, my interviewer pointed me a couple of cases i wasn't expecting, after the first question i knew i didn't make it because i was performing poorly.
then in the final part I could ask a couple of questions to my interviewer , so i had an insight on how is a common day working for facebook, and i really liked what i heard, it seems to be a great company to work for.
they gave me feedback by email the very same day of the interview
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
having a fuction that return chunks of 1024 Mb create a function that fetch any number of Mb, this function must call the fetch 1024 function one or more times to get all the chunks necesary
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Jul 2017
Interview
Typical process. Two phone interviews, one onsite interview. Finally rejected after onsite interview. Facebook recruiters seem to act very respectful until they want a candidate. Once they do not need a candidate anymore, recruiters are not responsive. Travelled all the way to PaloAlto for onsite interview. I felt like I did well .But five days after the interview, I myself had to follow up with recruiter for decision. Then recruiter emailed me saying that she has an update and she asked me free time for taking a phone call the next day. I was eagerly waiting and there was no call from her. I had to remind her the next day to call me. Then the recruiter called and said its a reject. I asked for feedback and she says there is no feedback and its just overall evaluation. Actually, I was told by the recruiter that facebook would give feedback on interviews but it was completely opposite after the onsite interview.