Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

August 2, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process begins with a recruiter screen.

This is followed by a technical interview, often scheduled 1–2 months later.

If you clear that, you will have four more rounds:

Three technical (including system design)
One behavioral interview

Questions

heap (kth element in the array) and queue (valid parentheses)

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 10 interview experiences for the Meta Machine Learning Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive70%

Neutral10%

Negative20%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Machine Learning Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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