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 online. I interviewed at Meta in May 2025
Interview
It was a meta software engineering interview for the security and privacy team. They had a screening round, and if you pass that you move into the main interview loop. They asked two questions in 40 minutes for their pre-screening round interview. Then they had 4x 1-hour interview loop.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked hard questions from LeetCode. The two questions were from the 60-day asked for Meta interview prep.
They asked about my previous experience and where I went to school and what I learned in school and what I did in school and how many projects ive worked on.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2023
Interview
My Meta interview experience was intense, fair, and surprisingly well structured. The interviewer set clear expectations, kept the pace tight, and focused heavily on problem solving, tradeoffs, and communication rather than trivia. The coding question was realistic and layered, rewarding a clean first solution and making follow-ups much easier if the foundation was solid. I appreciated the emphasis on explaining decisions, edge cases, and complexity. Feedback cues were subtle but helpful, and the conversation felt collaborative instead of adversarial. Overall, it felt like a strong signal-seeking process that values clarity, adaptability, and engineering judgment more than memorized patterns in practice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Graph question but I forgot how to implement bellman ford