Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 46 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Engineer according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
One on one interview: 21%
Presentation: 14%
Background check: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Drug test: 7%
Skills test: 7%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Oct 2017
Interview
I had a internal referral through a former intern. Once I got into contact with the University recruiter it was several weeks and many unresponsive emails before I scheduled my first technical interview. Facebook does 2 x 45 minute CoderPad interviews with execution disabled. My interviewer wasn't very engaged and the recruiting team there are just too busy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Shortest Snippet. Given a sequence [A, x, x, B, A, x, B], return the shortest sub-sequence for the given query [A, B].
Returns: [A, x, B]
Generic LeetCode-style questions, many tagged as Meta, so extensive preparation is required to perform well in the technical interview. The experience varies significantly - some interviewers provide hints and guidance, while others expect candidates to solve problems independently with minimal assistance.
Spoke with interviewer over video conferencing. He was very communicative . He answered my questions. Asked me BFS question. A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place