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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Palo Alto, California

December 1, 2014
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

First, I had a 1-hour phone interview with a Facebook employee.

Two days later, I was invited to a 45-minute on-campus interview in California.

I heard back two weeks after the final interview.

Questions

Given a social network where users can subscribe to one another, you are told that there is exactly one celebrity to whom everyone subscribes.

If the graph is represented as a 2D array, how would you find the celebrity?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 78 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineer role in Palo Alto, California.

Success Rate

13%
Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Palo Alto, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive44%
Neutral36%
Negative21%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Meta's Software Engineer interview process in Palo Alto, California.

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