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 an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2012
Interview
Five Interviews:
Talked about a past project and deep dived into my thinking about it.
Design a probabilistic english language word tokenizer.
Design a data processing infrastructure for petabytes of data and estimate the cost & perf characteristics of the system.
Permutate ways to count up to a number using a set of potential constituents.
How to efficiently choose numbers from a set and prove that the solution is the big-O optimal solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to mathematically prove the big-O bounds of an algorithm. I was a little rusty with my math, but my interviewer helped me and I got it.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Nov 2012
Interview
Sent resume through campus career fair. They set up a phone interview within a week. I was called for on-site interviews at Menlo Park after a few days. Three interviews, lunch and campus tour, followed by two tech talks of sorts.
The questions were fairly simple. Basic trees, recursion, order of complexity etc.