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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California

January 1, 2024
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process involved a recruiter call, a technical screening, and then a virtual onsite. The onsite consisted of two coding challenges, a behavioral interview, and a system design interview.

The recruiter was very helpful and allowed me to change the interview date when I got sick.

The coding interviews were intense, requiring two questions to be solved within 45 minutes. It felt almost like competitive programming.

Although I was able to come up with a solution for every question, I wasn't able to finish writing the code. Therefore, you need to be very fast and come up with succinct solutions.

Questions

Question 1

Given a matrix with walls (1) and open spaces (0), return the path from start to end as a list of points.

Question 2

Given two sorted lists of disjoint intervals, return the union of the two lists.

Systems Design

Design a scoreboard service for a game. Each game player wants to be able to view the following boards:

  • Global top 10
  • Global myPosition +/- 10
  • Friend Group top 10
  • Friend Group myPosition +/- 10

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 359 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineer role in Menlo Park, California.

Success Rate

28%
Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Menlo Park, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive69%
Neutral18%
Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Software Engineer interview process in Menlo Park, California.

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