How Meta runs its interviews, round by round, from the candidates who went through them: the questions asked, how hard they were, and who got an offer.
Worked out from the 172 Meta write-ups on this site.
London (25) · US (19) · USA (12) · Bangalore (7) · Menlo Park (4)
I completed the full interview loop for a Meta US SWE E4 role, passing coding, system design, and AI coding stages, but was ultimately rejected.
Cleared all technical rounds with good problem-solving approaches, including DSA, system design, and behavioral interviews....
I aced the coding and system design rounds for an E5 role at Meta but was rejected after the behavioral (Jedi) round.
I interviewed for a role at Meta and went through a design round and DSA rounds, encountering problems related to system design, linked lists, LRU cache, and array...
I recently completed a technical phone screening for a Meta SE position, which included behavioral questions and two coding problems, for which I had to provide code,...
I had a Meta E5 interview in the US which included a skipped phone screen and an onsite round covering coding (Container With Most Water, Word Search II), AI-enabled...
I had a phone interview for an IC4 role at Meta in London. I was asked two specific data structures and algorithms questions, and received positive feedback, indicating...
I recently went through an online assessment for Meta on CodeSignal. The assessment involved implementing a task management system with multiple levels of functionality....
Had a Meta onsite E5 interview which included coding, AI, and system design rounds. The AI round was particularly challenging and had a negative impact on the overall...
I recently had a 45-minute phone screen interview with Meta for an SDE-2 role, which involved solving two Data Structures and Algorithms problems....
I interviewed for an E6 ML-SWE role at Meta, encompassing multiple coding, system design, and behavioral rounds. Although I received a downleveled offer for E5, I...
I interviewed for an E4 Software Engineer role at Meta in Bangalore. After successfully clearing the screening rounds, I progressed to the main interview phase which...
I recently completed my full interview loop with Meta for a full-stack role but was unfortunately rejected. Despite what I felt was a strong performance across coding,...
I recently interviewed with Meta for an E4 Product role, navigating through a phone screen and multiple onsite rounds, where I successfully tackled various coding,...
I interviewed for a SWE Product role at Meta in the USA, facing two coding problems: a binary tree column traversal and a complex problem involving friend request logic...
Across 172 Meta interview experiences shared on Interview Experiences, the questions asked were mostly data structures & algorithms (74% of reported questions), behavioral (13% of reported questions), system design (12% of reported questions).
Candidates rated most Meta questions as medium (64% of rated questions). Easy: 12%, Medium: 64%, Hard: 24%.
29% of the 63 candidates who reported their result received an offer. People who share their experience are not a random sample, so treat this as a rough guide.
Questions reported more than once include "Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses", "Valid Word Abbreviation", "Binary Tree Vertical Order Traversal", "Buildings With an Ocean View", "Nested List Weight Sum".
There are write-ups for Software Engineer (5), SDE 2 (3), Senior Software Engineer (2), Staff Software Engineer (1), Frontend Engineer (1).
The median candidate had 5 years of experience.
Write up your rounds while you still remember the questions. It is exactly what the next Meta candidate is searching for.
