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      Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 11, 2013
      Anonymous employee
      Menlo Park, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Oct 2013

      Interview

      Had asked my friend to refer, within a week was contacted by recruiter and was asked for dates for telephonic screen. Provided my date preference, and within 2 days the phone screen was scheduled. Got result of phone screen next day, and was invited to Facebook HQ for a day long interview. Facebook has University Day, where they call people and conduct their interviews, also on the same day they have campus tour with tech talk. But, as I had other offer deadline, they were pretty comfortable in scheduling "one-off" interview for me, and was called on non-university day just for the interviews. Interview process was awesome. Had total of 4 rounds (1 Behavioral and 3 technical). Also after first round, I was accompanied by Facebook Engineer for lunch, and he walked me over the campus. I loved the campus and the interaction with the engineer. He almost answered all my questions and further gave me reasons about why working at Facebook was awesome. Post lunch, had 3 back to back technical interviews. All the interviewers were smart, provided enough information about the problem and also left grey areas for me to ask and figure out. For all the questions, implementation was expected. Most of the time during my interviews, I was standing and writing/discussing code on the white board. Overall the day was hectic but it is indeed great fun as I got pretty interesting problems to solve and discuss. After the interviews, I got my result after a week. Summarize: Fast and Fair Process. Great experience.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I had never heard of any questions that I was asked (in all the 4 rounds of interviews). So pretty much all the problem required me to think on the fly.
      1 Answer
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 23, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

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      Interview

      The whole interview process took about a month, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. It began with a technical phone screen where I tackled a DSA question about arrays. This led to a more in-depth technical round that included a design question on building a real-time leaderboard system. Funny enough, that prompt was almost identical to what I practiced on PracHub, which felt like a lucky coincidence. The final interview was a bit more relaxed, covering behavioral topics. I ended up getting an offer, which I happily accepted.

      Interview questions [2]

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      Design an online game leaderboard system that updates player scores in real time
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      Design a distributed web crawler that avoids revisiting duplicate pages
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 24, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Burlingame, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

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      I interviewed at Meta (Burlingame, CA)

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      very friendly and flexible interviewers. They all asked Leetecode medium questions. There were no tricky algorithms or data structures. The whole process took about 4 weeks from start to finish. overall a positive experience.

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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 23, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Singapore
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Meta (Singapore)

      Interview

      standard leetcode gatekeepers. nothing special about it. they expect you to solve multi problems, about 3 in total if you manage to solve, then they would consider. experience doesn't matter, your correct answer matters

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      Meta interviews FAQs

      • 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 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 2,266 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 according to 2,266 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  39%

        One on one interview:  24%

        Skills test:  15%

        Presentation:  8%

        Background check:  4%

        Group panel interview:  3%

        Personality test:  3%

        IQ intelligence test:  2%

        Drug test:  1%

        Other:  1%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(3607) ;
        2. Data Scientist(527) ;
        3. Senior Software Engineer(491) ;
        4. Product Manager(392) ;
        5. Software Engineer(Internship)(354) ;
        6. Program Manager(351) ;
        7. Technical Sourcer(346) ;
        8. Data Engineer(331) ;
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        10. Account Manager(240) ;
        11. Recruiter(236) ;
        12. Software Engineer Intern(229) ;
        13. Production Engineer(222) ;
        14. Research Scientist(219) ;
        15. Technical Recruiter(215) .


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