Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
Applied online and contacted recruiter via email.
Phone screen: 45 mins coding, 2 LeetCode easy-medium difficulty questions.
Virtual onsite:
- 2 x 45 mins coding (2 LeetCode medium difficulty questions each, 4 questions in total)
- 1 x 45 mins behavioural round.
Short introduction at the start of each round and Q&A for the last 5 minutes.
Questions
Phone screen: Find depth sums in a binary tree and deep copy a linked list with an other pointer.
Onsite: Cannot reveal due to NDA, but questions related to trees (BFS/DFS), strings, arrays, and hashmaps. Behavioral questions are pretty standard.
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Meta Work Experiences
- 4.0Former intern turned full-time employeeSoftware Engineer New Grad • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesNovember 30, 2022Pros: A large company with lots of different opportunities and benefits.Cons: I was laid off during my training period.
- 2.0Has become a toxic place to workEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesNovember 13, 2025Pros: Great technology work already built.Cons: Has become a toxic place to work.
- 3.0Okay place to be at, but definitely sinking shipSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesNovember 9, 2025Pros: Pay is really good, and coworkers are okay.Cons: The culture is rather toxic and sometimes coworkers are toxic too, due to PSC.
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