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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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta in Feb 2012
Interview
They contacted me by email and asked me to perform a test at interviewstreet.com website. The test has a timer and should be solved in at most 1 hour. You should write the code, and make sure that all test cases are passing. That means that you have to write the output in the exactly way they are expecting. I finished the test in 55 min. After that they contacted by email again to schedule a phone interview.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta in Dec 2011
Interview
I was asked to implement a few algorithm based questions on an online whiteboard. They are looking for people who come up with the fastest algorithm with no backtracking at all. For one of their questions, initially I implemented an O(n log n) solution and then realized a linear solution was possible but it was too late. I was informed the interview was over.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Intersection of n sets without using a hash table.