Meta Software Engineer (internship) interview questions
based on 718 ratings - Updated May 13, 2026
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2019
Interview
An employee made a referral and a recruiter set up an interview for me. I had three phone interviews in about 4 weeks. The second interview I still don't understand the problem, the other two interviews were not that hard.
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Question 1
Check if a given dictionary is valid following our own alphabet.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Santiago) in Sep 2020
Interview
The pre-interview process was really fast and helpful, lots of material to practice and very nice attitude of the recruiters. The interview itself makes you feel really comfortable despite the proper nerves of it. Approximately 45 minutes of interview, from those 30-40 minutes are for problem solving, the remaining time for questions/presentation.
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Question 1
A function that saves the right-most nodes of a tree.
Given some words with wildcards in them (e.g "hell* , or "go?d"), where each wildcard means it can be replaced by 1 or more characters or just one, respectively, you need to make a function that takes those words and see if they match to a bank of words that are given to you.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2020
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Asked me questions regarding my current role and work experience. Coding interview format is to solve two questions within 45 minutes. Another with binary trees, string, stack, and list on the whiteboard. System design interview. Behavioral Interview.
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Question 1
Design a completely hypothetical scenario; say, create a system to store logs of three servers situated far apart.