Software Engineer Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California

September 1, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Online technical assessment (2 hrs to complete), 4 parts that progressively get harder. Each part builds on previous parts.

Online behavioral assessment, answer multiple-choice questions about workplace scenarios.

First technical interview, 45 minutes, asked 2 LeetCode Medium questions.

Questions

Kth Largest Element in an Array

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 345 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.

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