Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
March 1, 2019
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
Technical Interview Scheduled
This interview was previously scheduled via a phone screen.
Duration: 45 minutes to 1 hour, broken down as follows:
- ~5 minutes for introductions (for both you and your interviewer)
- ~40 interview questions
- ~5 minutes for your questions to the interviewer
Questions
Given two string arrays, each one of the nodes containing a single string digit. Return the product of said arrays without parsing the whole array to a number.
The returned array must be a string array, too.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 80 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
9%
Pass Rate
Meta's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Positive46%
Neutral31%
Negative23%
Candidates reported having good feelings for Meta's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Meta Work Experiences
5.0
A good place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
September 16, 2022
Pros: A variety of teams to choose from.
Cons: Management coming down hard on ICs.
3.0
Experience is very team dependent
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
November 18, 2023
Pros: - Flexibility of work schedule
- TC, benefits
- Ease of team switch
Cons: - Bad org = bad experience
- No work-life balance
- Thrash
- Pressure to perform
- Competitive peers
4.0
Fast-paced, high autonomy
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
January 2, 2023
Pros: Engineers choose the initial team, with the option to switch after a year.
On the infra side, projects are engineer-driven, with a high emphasis on autonomy.
There is access to many interesting projects of scale.
Brilliant, highly capable coworkers.
Cons: - High workload culture.
- Projects tend to be more individual-oriented than collaborative, to the detriment of the project.
- 5.0A good place to workSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 16, 2022Pros: A variety of teams to choose from.Cons: Management coming down hard on ICs.
- 3.0Experience is very team dependentSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 18, 2023Pros: - Flexibility of work schedule - TC, benefits - Ease of team switchCons: - Bad org = bad experience - No work-life balance - Thrash - Pressure to perform - Competitive peers
- 4.0Fast-paced, high autonomySoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesJanuary 2, 2023Pros: Engineers choose the initial team, with the option to switch after a year. On the infra side, projects are engineer-driven, with a high emphasis on autonomy. There is access to many interesting projects of scale. Brilliant, highly capable coworkers.Cons: - High workload culture. - Projects tend to be more individual-oriented than collaborative, to the detriment of the project.
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