Sr. Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr. Software Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 1 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 Sr. Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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This is for virtual onsite, there are 2 algorithm round with 2 leetcode medium each round, 1 bq round, 1 system design round that they want you to lead the conversation
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2025
Interview
Contacted with recruiter
Participated in initial coding interview, had a feeling that the interview went well.
After the interview, the recruiter asked questions about visa and work permissions, team preferences, etc, shortly afterwards I received the rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge two sorted arrays without using an additional data structure (one of the arrays has size N+M)
Compare the compressed string and the real one for a match
ex.
k8s, kubernetes = true;
ab100, abc = false
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY)
Interview
A Meta recruiter had reached out to me on LinkedIn for a while. Setting up the phone screen was easy. The recruiter was very courteous and set it up within 10 minutes. The phone screen was a standard intro, followed by two coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer asked two questions and time boxed them. They were standard Leetcode medium questions. The first one was to parse a string and do an evaluation. The second one was to do an operation on an array of integers.