Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 43%
One on one interview: 29%
Skills test: 29%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
Technical phone call after recruiter reached out. 2 minutes meet and greet from both sides then straight to the coding section. 1 Medium and 1 Medium-Hard LC styles. Not meta common but pretty popular problems. Coded it and ran through my own test case.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2025
Interview
1. Initial call with recruiter (~30mins):
discuss about your background and experience, why you are interested in Meta, overview of interview process and high level view of role and team
2. Technical Phone Screen (~45mins):
Conducted by a Meta software engineer. Coding challenge on a coderpad, It will be two dsa problems (Leetcode style easy to medium)
3. Onsite (4 - 5 rounds, 45 - 50 mins for each round)
(a) two coding rounds: It will be similar to phone screen, but expect harder questions
(b) system design round
(c) behavioral round
You might have additional behavioral or system design round randomly