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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

November 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through a career fair in college and was called for an on-campus interview.

After two weeks, the interviewer notified me to go for an on-site interview. I chose San Francisco, at Facebook's headquarters.

The first question was easy; you only had to DFS or BFS to find all adjacent areas.

The second question took place at the on-site, and it was a little bit harder than the first one.

Questions

Given a 2D matrix where each cell contains a character from the alphabet, verify if a given word exists in this matrix. A word is considered to exist in a matrix if there is a path from cell to cell in the matrix that creates a word matching the word we're looking for. A cell can move to all vertex-adjacent cells (so there are 8 adjacent cells) and cannot be used more than once.

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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.

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