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      Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 9, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Oct 2024

      Interview

      1. Recruiter Screen (30 min) • Introductory chat to understand your background and career interests. • They’ll explain the process and ask about your availability. • Sometimes a light behavioral question or coding warm-up. 2. Technical Phone Screen (1 or 2 rounds, 45 min each) • DSA-focused coding questions on a shared editor (like CoderPad). • Think LeetCode Medium/Hard — expect 1-2 questions per round. • Interviewers look for: problem-solving, communication, and clean coding. 3. Onsite / Virtual Onsite (typically 4 rounds) Usually consists of: • 2 Coding Interviews • More DSA problems (trees, graphs, dynamic programming, etc.) • Think-aloud and communicate trade-offs • 1 System Design (for mid-senior level) • Design a scalable system (e.g., news feed, messaging, file storage) • Focus on API design, data modeling, scalability, trade-offs • 1 Behavioral (“Execution” or “Leadership & Drive”) • Meta uses structured behavioral interviews tied to values like: • Move fast • Focus on long-term impact • Be bold • STAR format is common (Situation, Task, Action, Result)

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given a stream of characters, design a data structure to check if any suffix of the stream matches a word from a predefined dictionary.
      Answer question
      1

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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 24, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

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      Overall, the process took a little over two weeks, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. After a quick screening, I went through two technical rounds focusing on coding and DSA concepts. One of the questions was a classic palindrome check; mid-way through, I realized it was something I had practiced on PracHub just days earlier. The final step was a casual behavioral interview. I was relieved to get an offer shortly after, which I happily accepted.

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      Question 1

      Given a string, determine if it is a valid palindrome considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring case.
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      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
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      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)

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      Jun 24, 2026
      Anonymous employee
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      Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.

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      Question 1

      Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.
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