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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Classic swe loop with heavy emphasis on code speed, sys design, and behavioral. If you want to level higher, focus on sys design and behavioral. Those rounds are used to level you.
recruiter reached out and set up interview. didnt get past first round but standard leetcode coding interview. the interviewer was nice and started off the interview by asking background. overall good practice and experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
quick synopsis of background but most of interview was technical.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2025
Interview
The interview process was straight forward as discussed with the recruiter.
1 phone screen
2 coding rounds
1 behavioural
1 product design
Coding questions where mostly from let ode tagged questions with minor tweets.