Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 67%
Presentation: 33%
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Interviewer got the time wrong and called me while I was asleep asking to join the virtual interview. Then he was not bothered during the interview and kept asking me to repeat myself at the end of each explanation.
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The question was fairly tough if you haven't done it before, it was to find all palindromic substrings in a string. They didn't care too much about efficiency, as long as it's not above polynomial complexity.
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.
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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]
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Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place