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 82% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Engineer according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 19%
One on one interview: 15%
Skills test: 15%
Personality test: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 12%
Presentation: 12%
Group panel interview: 8%
Background check: 4%
Other: 4%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
I got the interview from employer referral. The first interview was a 45-min phone screening, where I was asked about my past working experience, a coding question and a followup coding question. In about 2-3 days I heard back from the HR that I was invited for an on-site interview. The on-site (Uday) interview was also 45-min long, including a discussion about my past working experience and two technical questions, both answered on a whiteboard. Very typical interview workflow but the HRs at FB are incredibly responsible and responsive!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about how you develop your interests thru past working/research experience.
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