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Senior Swe Interview Experience - United States

October 5, 2023

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone interview + VO.

I failed the phone interview, so I have no idea about the VO process.

The phone interview was 45 minutes long and included one question with follow-ups. There were 5 minutes left for questions to the interviewer.

Questions

Merge three sorted lists. You should consider removing duplicates.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Meta Senior Swe role in United States.

Success Rate

20%

Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Senior Swe roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive60%

Neutral40%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Senior Swe interview process in United States.

Meta Work Experiences

Great Culture, High Pressure

Senior Swe • Current Employee

Pros: Solid pay, great engineering culture.

Cons: Pressure can be quite high.

Great Culture, High Pressure

Senior Swe • Current Employee

Pros: Solid pay, great engineering culture.

Cons: Pressure can be quite high.

Good perks, high stress

Senior Swe • Current Employee

Burlingame, California, United States

Pros: Great pay Great career Great food Great benefits

Cons: High stress. Too many meetings.

Good perks, high stress

Senior Swe • Current Employee

Burlingame, California, United States

Pros: Great pay Great career Great food Great benefits

Cons: High stress. Too many meetings.

You get bad work for great money

Senior Swe • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: They give you a lot of money.

Cons: The work you do is meaningless, and people take it way too seriously.

You get bad work for great money

Senior Swe • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: They give you a lot of money.

Cons: The work you do is meaningless, and people take it way too seriously.

Great Culture, High Pressure

Senior Swe • Current Employee

Pros: Solid pay, great engineering culture.

Cons: Pressure can be quite high.

5.0
Great Culture, High Pressure
Senior Swe • Current Employee
July 19, 2025
Pros: Solid pay, great engineering culture.
Cons: Pressure can be quite high.

Good perks, high stress

Senior Swe • Current Employee

Burlingame, California, United States

Pros: Great pay Great career Great food Great benefits

Cons: High stress. Too many meetings.

3.0
Good perks, high stress
Senior Swe • Current Employee
Burlingame, California, United States
April 27, 2025
Pros: Great pay Great career Great food Great benefits
Cons: High stress. Too many meetings.

You get bad work for great money

Senior Swe • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: They give you a lot of money.

Cons: The work you do is meaningless, and people take it way too seriously.

3.0
You get bad work for great money
Senior Swe • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
April 8, 2025
Pros: They give you a lot of money.
Cons: The work you do is meaningless, and people take it way too seriously.

Meta Interview Questions

Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses

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.

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Valid Word Abbreviation

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

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.

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