I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (London, England) in Oct 2020
Interview
Pretty standard - phone screen then onsite and optional follow ups. The major dealbreaker is what happens after the interviews. Your application supposedly gets messed up in bureaucracy where even the recruiters have little visibility. It's been a month since my onsite and I still haven't heard back from them. The recruiters are nice, but there's only so much they can do to speed up the red tape. I was finally suggested by my recruiter that they still don't have any end of timeline in sight and pursue other offers. For a company that prides in moving fast, this experience feel hella short.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard hard/medium-hard questions. They have a really good candidate prep guide, make sure you do what's needed and prepare well.
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
Technical screen followed by Onsite 4 Rounds.
Technical screen was simple leetcode.
Onsite consisted of two more leetcode along with one system design and one behavioural.
Interviewee were all very nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was a conflict you had at work and how did you deal with it?
(behavioural)
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Had an initial recruiter call for talking about my background. Then we made an appointment for the phone screen interview. After phone screen interview, it goes to a 4-round interview loop.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone Screen: Two classic leetcode problems in the Top 30 list. One tests binary search in a sorted array, another one tests graph search using Breath First Search or Depth First Search algorithm
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 2,265 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 2,265 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 -