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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California

October 1, 2012
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was cold-called by a recruiter and offered a technical interview.

I scheduled the interview, but in the meantime, I received an offer from another company and canceled the interview.

Later, I decided to re-apply for the same position, and the process continued where it left off.

I was interviewed by phone and asked to complete a coding assignment. As I discovered later, this assignment appears here as one of the questions.

Later, I was notified I passed the phone screening and was invited for an on-site interview. There was a total of four interviews, including three coding interviews.

Even though most of the questions appeared on this site, I did not do very well in the coding part, thus, as expected, did not receive the offer.

Throughout the entire process, the hiring staff was extremely helpful and provided lots of information regarding the position and the interviewing process itself. The recruiter also organized a phone call with one of the engineers to help me learn more about the position I was applying for.

While at Menlo Park, I was accompanied by the recruiter, and she showed me all around the campus.

Questions

None of the questions were difficult or unexpected. Most of them appear on this site.

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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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