Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - India
Process
Applied over LinkedIn.
Got a call scheduled over "Bluejeans". Had a Google Hangouts video call and coding over CoderPad (execution disabled).
Interview was scheduled for a London location, and timing was set as per my local time zone.
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Questions
Q. Given a map of cities to inhabitants in millions (e.g., {"london": 10, "NYC": 5, "SF": 12}), return a random city such that the probability of each city being returned is proportional to its inhabitants.
Q. Given two sparse vectors (arrays with most values as 0), find an efficient way to calculate their dot product.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Meta Senior Software Engineer role in India.
Success Rate
Meta's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in India is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Senior Software Engineer interview process in India.
Meta Work Experiences
- 4.0Great place to learn and grow!Senior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeBurlingame, California, United StatesJune 25, 2024Pros: Great minds at work, open culture, voice, quality of work, perks.Cons: Stressful under a bad team. The AR/VR space had a lot of re-orgs and was not well organized.
- 5.0Great Colleagues and CompensationSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeJune 2, 2022Pros: Smart Coworkers Good PTO and CompCons: Nothing really bad about working there if you are working on an interesting project.
- 4.0Good Perks, High PressureSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesMarch 22, 2025Pros: Great perks. The family leave is great.Cons: Pressure to perform, expected to cut low performers every year now. A lot of politics.
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