Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 43 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in May 2025
Interview
I got to the technical round and didn't make it passed. If you do the pinned top 75 Meta questions, you will make it through. Don't deviate from those questions, if you don't get one of those, the interviewer just doesn't want you to pass
Started with a recruiter call, followed by a technical round screen, and then a virtual on site (three more technicals and behavioural focused on team working abilities and previous experience)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode tagged questions, focus on data structures
It was an data structures and algorithms round. The questions were mid to high level leetcode questions. The asked the time complexity of all the questions.Then the the interviewer will ask you to optimize the code with the best time complexity possible
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"Given an array of integers, return the length of the longest consecutive sequence. Your algorithm should run in O(n) time."