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:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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It included a number of challenging coding questions, behavioral questions, and system design questions. They are willing to move through the process fairly quickly. There were only a few stages: initial screen, coding screen, and on-site.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Feb 2020
Interview
Very long and grueling process. They literally give you PDFs of material to study for your interviews. You are expected to do 5 one-hour interviews in a single day, solving programming challenges nonstop the entire time. You get a lunch break but that's also a "friendly interview" with an employee to learn about company culture.
They are amongst the highest paying in tech and they know it - you sure have to work to get in.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Know your data structures and algorithms off the top of your head!