Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

October 8, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It was a fair process with well-defined steps, among them: coding, state design, and cultural fit.

The interviewers were kind and fair. I had difficulties, but they resolved all my doubts.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 77 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

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

Positive45%

Neutral31%

Negative23%

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

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