Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 53 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Engineer according to 53 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Background check: 5%
Group panel interview: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Jose, CA) in Sept 2016
Interview
2 phones interviews 2 onsite interviews, not an easy interviews they expect you to know everything when it comes to the foundation of software engineering...you should know all about AGLE methods, different programming languages such as C++, C#, Java, PHP, Java script, assembly, python etc...
Generic LeetCode-style questions, many tagged as Meta, so extensive preparation is required to perform well in the technical interview. The experience varies significantly - some interviewers provide hints and guidance, while others expect candidates to solve problems independently with minimal assistance.
Spoke with interviewer over video conferencing. He was very communicative . He answered my questions. Asked me BFS question. A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
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A question that involved BFS search. Given a matrix, I am suppose to find a path from top left to down right.
The technical round hit me with a classic array manipulation problem: moving zeroes to the end without disrupting the order of non-zero elements. As I tackled it, I felt a wave of familiarity wash over me; I had just practiced a similar challenge on PracHub. The rest of the interview followed a straightforward path, with some easy behavioral questions sprinkled in. Overall, it felt very easy, but I wasn’t quite the right fit for what they needed, so I didn’t receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Move zeroes in an array to the end while keeping non-zero element order, in place