Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

August 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Initial recruiter call, followed by a coding assessment (different from LeetCode-type questions, with pre-defined levels of questions where each level unlocks after all test cases are passed), a phone screen, and a virtual on-site interview (3 coding and 1 system design).

Questions

Asked about the current experience and medium-level LeetCode problems.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 101 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineer role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

17%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive52%

Neutral32%

Negative16%

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

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