Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

August 11, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter reached out on LinkedIn.

I had a 30-minute intro call with her, followed by a technical screen with an ML Engineer.

I practiced a bunch of LeetCode for the screen, based off of Reddit advice.

Questions

Two questions.

First, a depth-first search question on a tree.

Second, a merge interval question.

All in 45 minutes.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Meta Machine Learning Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Machine Learning Engineer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive14%

Neutral43%

Negative43%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Meta's Machine Learning Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

Meta Interview Questions

Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses

Medium

Given a string with parentheses, determine the minimum number of parentheses you must remove to make the string valid. A valid string has balanced and properly nested parentheses.

StringsStacksTwo Pointers

Valid Word Abbreviation

Easy

Determine if a given abbreviation is valid for a given word. An abbreviation can contain digits representing the number of skipped characters.

StringsTwo Pointers

Binary Tree Vertical Order Traversal

Medium

Traverse a binary tree and return a list of node values for each vertical line, ordered from left to right. Nodes on the same vertical line should be ordered from top to bottom.

Trees