Software Engineer Interview Experience - Canada

October 31, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Call with a recruiter, then a tech screen with a software engineer. The tech screen was 45 minutes and had 2 problems. It seems you're expected to get the full solution to move on to the next stage.

Questions

One of the questions was calculating the length of a binary tree. I had seen it in the LeetCode questions tagged with Meta.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 65 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineer role in Canada.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive48%

Neutral38%

Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Software Engineer interview process in Canada.

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