Security Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 55% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Security Engineer roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 29 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 Security Engineer according to 29 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 46%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 14%
Background check: 8%
Presentation: 8%
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There are more or less four interview steps in the interviewing process: coding, security design, technical security questions and behavioural interview. These are often spread over multiple days after a first screening step.
There is a phone interview with 2 rounds, one threat modeling and one coding. The coding round is 2 questions in about 15 mins each, they can be lc easy to medium
Initial technical screening round with one coding round and one thread modeling round. Final round was three separate interviews. Two technical one behavioral. The technical rounds were focused on threat modeling different types of applications.
The interview process was very structured and oriented around being able to evaluate a candidate while enabling a candidate to talk to multiple employees across different teams to ask questions and form opinions. It consisted of different tracks of technical evaluation as well as behavioral evaluation. The process was respectful, professional, and geared to surface a good fit to the company and their culture as well as someone that could demonstrate solid technical proficiency.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about a time you've had to deal with some kind of conflict either on your team or in a project effort with someone in a different team. How did you resolve this issue and find a path to move forward?