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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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta (Surathakal) in Aug 2011
Interview
I had to clear a online coding challenge. After that I had 4 rounds of this interview, one after the another on the same day. Most of the questions were technical in nature focusing on algorithms and problem solving. Other questions were based on my project and internships
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Chicago, IL) in Nov 2012
Interview
I was participating in Facebook Midwest Regional Hackathon, and got contacted by the recruiter shortly thereafter at my university. We scheduled the first phone interview, which was a technical interview. The questions included printing binary search tree in reverse, finding k-th largest element in O(N) without modifying the node, and then same k-th largest element in log(N) time keeping the size of the subtree in each node.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"Reverse" of the problem if finding k-th smallest element in a tree: I had to find k-th largest.