Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

October 21, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Standard Leetcode medium question for a software interview. I had one engineer interviewing me for the initial round. The interviewer was nice and guided me through, but ultimately I did not proceed to the next round.

Questions

An n x m grid of islands and water. Find the amount of islands. Find runtime complexity.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 138 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

17%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive56%

Neutral25%

Negative19%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

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