I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2026
Difficult interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2016
Interview
HR and Recruiters were all nice. However, the phone screen was horrible: the interviewer had a difficult accent and very arrogant attitude. While she saw I missed some design point, she didn't notify me until it was 25 minutes in the screen, despite the fact I clarified my design at the start and asked her if she had any concerns.
When I asked her at the end about FB culture, she mentioned it, VERY ARROGANTLY, 4 times in as many sentences that FB looks for fast coders and they have a unique culture they are proud of and others have to adapt to it.
She managed to make me not apply anymore to FB if I would work with the likes of her.
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Interview
Filtering steps:
1. Automated coding questions via Coderpad
2. Freestyle coding interview
Full loop interview:
1. System design interview with Excalidraw
2. Behavior interview via zoom
3. Freestyle Coding interview
4. Coding with AI via Coderpad
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Freestyle coding:
Find lowest common ancestor of 2 nodes in a binary tree
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2026
Interview
Online Application to Virtual phone screen. Phone screen included two leetcode style questions (random pick index, log parsing question). Finished describing my approaches however they were not optimal. s s
Initial phone screen with recruiter who reached out via Linkedin. Asked reasonable questions about skills and interests related to the role - specifically around infrastructure IAAC, SQL pipelines and real time data.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How much of your time do you spend doing SQL vs Python?
