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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Tough process. 2 LC mediums for basically all the coding portions and needs to be done in 45 min. ML System design was geared towards recommendations and behavioral dove deep in to experience
It was quite hard, but at the end of the day, it was reasonable. Meta is a sought after workplace and therefore the interview was very hard. I would definitely recommend giving it a go.
Did a phone-screening, and then a virtual code interview a bit later. The code interview was better set up than a lot of other companies I’ve seen: you don’t have access to a compiler, but the interviewer did encourage you to talk through your process + seemed aware that things like “forgot minor syntax detail” are not representative of what a programmer might be like in a real environment when they could quickly Google something like that.
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Question 1
Fairly standard C++ coding exercises, like the ones you’d see on LeetCode.