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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Not too bad it was medium to hard leetcode questions a fair amount of DSA.
Had a systems design question so prep a lot on that.
It was whiteboarding the interviewer did give advice in terms of hinting but not the answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the big o of the algorithm and how to improve it
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Sep 2025
Interview
Online technical assessment (2 hrs to complete), 4 parts that progressively gets harder. Each part builds on previous parts.
Online behavioral assessment, answer multiple choice questions about workplace scenarios.
First technical interview, 45 minutes, asked 2 Leetcode Medium questions.
first OA , then 4 loop , they send you a mail before the loop and it has all the relevant stuff that you need, very clear process, first 2 are coding , medim to hard question , one design, one behavioral , in behavioral they asked me around 20 question which was a lot