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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2 leetcode questions per round. The system design round felt a bit weird because it’s just you doing a monologue. Otherwise pretty decent experience. Strongly recommend going through Leetcode questions thoroughly. Also practicing writing 2 questions within 45 mins
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Question 1
Check Meta tagged questions on Leetcode 90% of my questions were from there
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2024
Interview
Consists of 3 rounds, 2 technical interviews, 1 behavior interview.
Technical interview only includes 2 leetcode questions each. Behavior interview dived deep into my resume. Got an code-reviewing question in one of the technical interviews.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time you have a disagreement with your manager.
Phone Screen (2 leetcode questions)
1. Valid Word abbreviation
2. Median of data stream
Interviewer seemed uninterested during the whole interview start to finish. (I asked clarifying questions, talked through my code, dry runs ect. No comments / low energy throughout on interviewer side)
Aced first question, not many follow-ups or comments from interviewer.
Second question (LC Hard) did not finish full class
Provided/explained optimal solution (two heaps), however I could not figure out logic to balance heaps during insertion.
I asked the interviewer if I could provide a suboptimal solution with one list and sorting (return midpoint) but was told to continue with heap solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two Questions, One LC Easy, One LC Hard
Valid Word Abbreviation https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-word-abbreviation/description/
Find median of data stream https://leetcode.com/problems/find-median-from-data-stream/description/