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%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Boomerang interview. Had initial tech screen (algorithms) and one behavioural. Talked to recrutiers. Everyone's prompt to respond. I was told I did not get full interview loop because I left Meta less than year ago.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Conflict management, working with cross functional roles, reacting to feedback.
I am working on Sev2 where the issue is this in frontend, I checked there has been multiple instances of this and some tasks are also there. can somebody shed some light past debugs on thi
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hey folks, are all the APIs listed here are from Egress coral service? If yes, what usecases are the APIs under management/rpc/ powering?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Bellevue, WA) in Feb 2025
Interview
Screening Interview: 15-ish minutes of behavioral (tell me about a time when...), 40 minute coding exercise. Parenthesis balancing IIRC, not too hard.
Full Interview: 1 behavioral, 1 system design, 2 coding. Coding were Leetcode-like, but with some interesting twists that threw me off - I probably had not practiced enough.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The system design interview was for an online auction system. It included front end and back end elements, e.g. updating the web UI in real time as new bids came in, and how to shard data and processing such that auction interactions were fast as they approached their deadline and there were a lot of bidders and watchers.