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 a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Oct 2021
Interview
Horrible. Don't interview there. Last round was chaotic. Also, Diversity and Inclusion? Just for show. Their website is full of that. I asked the interviewer and he had no idea what I was talking about. They're doing it for show. No real push for it.
Last round interviewer was late. When he got there, I could see the interviewer was not really interested in the interview. Pure robotic question and tone like, "I just want to get done with this."
Their website talks a lot about diversity. I asked about it. Interviewer had no idea what I was talking about.
Steps:
Hiring manager invited me to interview.
Phone call with recruiter.
Standard technical phone call.
Standard, full day interview with 6 rounds.
Last interviewer showed last minute. Shadower was calling him.
They asked for a survey. I sent them a very poor review given that the last round was so poor.
Then email saying they're not proceeding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Programming questions found online in well known sites
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