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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HR screen, phone interview and then onsite interview. Onsite was 5 rounds - 3 coding, 1 behavioral and 1 product architecture interview. One of the coding rounds was a training round that including a shadow interviewer
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Meta (London, England) in Feb 2022
Interview
Phone screening, then 45 mins of coding with two problems, then at the final day 4x45 mins interviews. Two code interviews, one behavioural and one design Interview. The interview process and how to prepare for it described to me really well by the company’s recruiters. I managed to pass the coding interviews by practicing on Leetcode medium problems. But stuck on the design interview.
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Question 1
For design I’m asked to crawl a website using several crawlers. The main idea was to see if I can see different aspects of the problem and have at least one solution for each of those.
I did the initial interview remotely. We screen shared and they gave me a couple coding problems. I was told they had a project relating to government and politics which I was interested in, however they were unable to answer many questions about it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
We will implement an online chess game, involving a chessboard and chess pieces, that can be played by two opponents logged in to the game from different devices.