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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Contacted by HR and setup a meeting, the HR is kind and the engineer is also kind, but I got nervous and blew it. Should have refresh my skills before going into an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array a contains all digits 0-9
a = [1, 4, 2, 1] # which represents 1421
Add one to the number and return the array
return a = [1, 4, 2, 2] # which represents 1422
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2015
Interview
Started off with a basic screening test from a recruiter, basic programming questions that your really should know.
This was followed by two 1 hour Skype interviews, both interviews consisted of 1 programming question and then 15 mins chatting. The questions at this stage are very basic (arrays).
Final stage was onsite interview, 4 back to back interviews, these were a lot harder but with good revision easily passed. Just make sure you know your data structures and basic algorithms.
Overall best interview experience ever! everyone is amazing and you leave knowing this is the place you really want to work!
Onsite interview process was fair. Difficulty level was average. First person to interview me had horrible communication skills. He couldn't explain coding problem clearly.
Remaining three people were very good in communication. After on-site interview, facebook requested for yet another coding phone interview.
Post onsite phone interview is what went wrong with me. This person had poor interview skills. He asked me an advanced algorithm question about graph/tree traversal (search for "same fringe problem concurrency" and you will know what I am talking about). I gave a natural solution which was not space efficient, but interviewer was looking for a specific solution he had in mind.
I lost the deal to this question. I would give thumbs up to recruiters handling interview process. I think they are one of the best in the industry.