Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington
Process
This was a rather long process; expect at least a week between interview portions.
The "phone interview" was done in person and felt like a "ninja interview." It took 4 days for feedback, and the next steps took at least a week to plan.
The real interview consisted of 5 interviews plus a lunch that wasn't an interview.
One week later, I was told to immediately provide contacts from my current employer. Four days later, I was rejected.
Questions
Given a string 'alphabet' and a string 'codex', find the shortest substring in 'codex' that contains all characters in 'alphabet'.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Meta Senior Software Engineer role in Seattle, Washington.
Success Rate
Meta's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Seattle, Washington is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having negative feelings for Meta's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Seattle, Washington.
Meta Work Experiences
- 2.0Used to be one of the best... now not so muchSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 26, 2025Pros: - Compensation is high. - Colleagues are highly intelligent and motivated. - You're working for the largest social media company on the planet... scale, scale, scale!Cons: - Top-down decision making. - Longstanding company values are thrown out when it is politically expedient. - Poor work-life balance. - Performance reviews have become far more cutthroat.
- 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.
- 2.0Talented Engineers, Poor LeadershipSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 7, 2022Pros: Great engineers, great benefits.Cons: - Useless leadership and managers. - Bottom-up culture doesn't work well on scale. - Short-term thinking, buggy products, impact/metric-driven incentives. - Everyone thinks about ways to maximize their bonus rather than thinking about product quality. - Engineers are mostly code monkeys. There's not much opportunity for system design at scale. Everyone is supposed to product code, and every line is counted and impacts the reviews.
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