Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 42 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 67%
Skills test: 33%
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A short introduction and behavioral interview is the first interview. It is short and no technical information is discussed. The second interview is the coding portion. There are two questions, one easy/med level, the second is med/hard. There are two more interviews after the coding assessment.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Bellevue, WA) in Oct 2023
Interview
Technical coding interview consisting in two coding problems. The duration of the interview is 45 minutes: 40 minutes for coding (20-20 for each problem) and 5 minutes to ask questions to the interviewer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Add two decimal numbers represented by a string like "1.2" + "34.56" without transforming them into numbers. Find any local minimum in an array of numbers.
Initial technical assessment utilizing CoderPad. Upon successful completion, candidates are moved into the "full loop", which consists of 4 consecutive interviews. The first two are coding intensive, the third is centered around system design, and the last is behavioral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding questions assess one's familiarity with data structures and when to use each. Understanding time and space complexity is important. Behavioral questions are of the "Describe a situation when..." nature.