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      Software Engineer Interview

      25 Jul 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2024

      Interview

      Prior to a coding interview, they give you access to a preparation hub. It has a bunch of videos from the author of "Cracking the Coding Interview," which are extremely poorly done. They can be meandering and aren't edited well at all. They play in low-resolution with no option for higher quality, so you often can't even read the code in them. The video player itself is very buggy too, often skipping back to an earlier portion while you're watching. Not much quality control there; perhaps they should hire someone to fix it, though I guess they have little incentive to. Had a 1 hour interview with 30 mins of standard soft questions, and 25 mins of a coding exercise. It's the standard "coding challenge" thing where if you've memorized data structures, complexity and Big O notation, or even the actual problem which is on Leetcode under "Meta," you'll likely pass. I was able to implement a solution that worked, and realized only later that I had been a little off on stating the time complexity, which likely meant I didn't pass (just my guess). Suggesting the right data structure that could have led to a faster solution also might have helped. Ultimately, the coding challenge part of these interviews is mostly a test of if you've studied data structures and/or Leetcode problems, and remember them well enough to regurgitate during an interview. Not much to do with actually building software.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      One of the Leetcode coding problems tagged with Meta that was further down the list in frequency.
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      Software Engineer Interview

      24 Jun 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Meta

      Interview

      Overall, the process took a little over two weeks, which felt a bit longer than I anticipated. After a quick screening, I went through two technical rounds focusing on coding and DSA concepts. One of the questions was a classic palindrome check; mid-way through, I realized it was something I had practiced on PracHub just days earlier. The final step was a casual behavioral interview. I was relieved to get an offer shortly after, which I happily accepted.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given a string, determine if it is a valid palindrome considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring case.
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      24 Jun 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Menlo Park, CA
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)

      Interview

      It's honestly striaght from leetcode tagged There are no surprises if you do tagged you would be good and do well. System design is much harder. Would recommend using hello interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design Twitter and consider if it was suddenly an extremely low latency env
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      Software Engineer Interview

      24 Jun 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Meta

      Interview

      Grateful doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about landing this role. The interview loop was smooth and friendly. They kicked things off with a technical round where I faced a DSA question about verifying an alien dictionary. Lucky for me, the time I'd spent on PracHub paid off, as it had the same type of problem just days before. After that, I had a system design discussion and a behavioral interview. Everything felt very collaborative, and by the end, I received an offer that I was thrilled to accept.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given a list of words written in an alien language and the order of letters in that language's alphabet, determine whether the words are sorted lexicographically (Verifying an Alien Dictionary). Walk through the comparison approach using a character-to-index map, the O(C) time complexity where C is total characters, and how you'd extend it to handle words with mixed-case letters or words containing characters outside the given alphabet.
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