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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Contacted by university recruiter for a phone screen. They provided a helpful prep resource and the questions in the interview were straightforward. I was flown out to the Menlo Park campus for University day, where I had 4 interviews and then QA sessions and a campus tour. Most interviews were standard except one negative experience where I asked about the result of a test case and the interviewer kept changing his answer. It seems that even one poor interview will hurt your chances.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2016
Interview
I had a colleague from my recent summer internship talk to his friend who worked at Facebook refer me. About a week later a recruiter reached out to me to schedule a phone interview.
I had 3 interviews in total. The first one was an initial screening interview over the phone with the recruiter where we simply went over my CV for 30 minutes.
A few days later she scheduled a Skype interview with an engineer from Menlo Park. The interview was technical and I managed to solve 1 question just about on time, with a few minutes left for questions for the engineer before he had to run off.
I was surprised to see the next morning that they wanted to move forward and schedule a 2nd interview with me. This time it would be with another engineer but over video conference. The interviewer was very kind and gave me a hint when I was moving in the wrong direction with my solution. Again, I managed to solve the solution just about on time with a few minutes left for questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of n positive integers and a positive integer s, find the minimal length of a subarray of which the sum ≥ s. If there isn't one, return 0 instead.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Meta (Cambridge, MA) in Feb 2015
Interview
Was called onsite directly as I was local to Cambridge, MA.
A Sr. Engineer interviewed. He was welcoming and willing to help.
It was a typical white board coding interview.
Very professional and very helpful.
Recruiter called and asked me to come onsite as the position was local.
They gave responses very quick.
I said to my interviewer that I am not interested in web development but interested in back end (may be its a mistake, as its facebook).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the indices of max. value in a large array and return them.