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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

October 1, 2012
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Process

Five Interviews:

  • Talked about a past project and deep-dived into my thinking about it.
  • Designed a probabilistic English language word tokenizer.
  • Designed a data processing infrastructure for petabytes of data and estimated the cost & performance characteristics of the system.
  • Permutated ways to count up to a number using a set of potential constituents.
  • Explained how to efficiently choose numbers from a set and proved that the solution is the Big-O optimal solution.

Questions

I was asked to mathematically prove the Big-O bounds of an algorithm. I was a little rusty with my math, but my interviewer helped me, and I got it.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 106 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

Positive54%
Neutral31%
Negative15%

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

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