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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California

May 1, 2012
Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I was contacted by a recruiter via employee referral. I chose to go on-site for the initial interview.

This was followed by an on-site day of interviews a few weeks afterward (I asked for some time to prepare for coding tests).

The second set of interviews comprised of:

  • Two coding tests
  • One design interview
  • One behavioral interview
  • Lunch with the hiring manager
  • One interview related to my technical specialization

I received an offer within a week of the final set of interviews.

Questions

Coding tests were the hardest part for me, since I have been out of school for a long time now. Prepare for questions related to trees, graphs, strings, and dynamic programming, and practice writing code on paper.

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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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