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%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Phone screen
Leetcode style question
5 rounds of final (onsite/virtual) interview
The interview process is rather straightforward and the recruiter was really helpful. The process is pretty much standard with other tech companies.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone screen
Leetcode style question -- leetcode medium -- something like kth largest element in an array with a followup question
Didn't move on to the next round
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA)
Interview
Phone screening plus online coding interview. Coding was a roughly one hour long session where I was asked multiple questions about algorithms and coding practices. Did not get any feedback at the end. I was eventually rejected after few hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solve a series of leetcode-like exercises. Easy to medium difficulty
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Mar 2022
Interview
Phone screen with 2 coding problems, followed by 3 rounds (1 behavioral, 2 coding). Each interview had 2 questions to be solved in about 20 minutes each. Each was medium difficulty.