Meta

Software Engineer Interview Experience

April 21, 2018

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Stupid interview process. Why? Read on.

A recruiter reveals all the questions a scheduled interviewer may ask on a phone screen. Highly unprofessional.

Then the recruiter is so unprofessional that now that you've been rejected, they never respond back.

Oh, sorry, I meant to say they scheduled the call but never called and then rescheduled the call and never called.

When asked, they said, "I called and left a voicemail, but you never responded." I never got a voicemail, never received a call at all. I was actually waiting for it.

Pathetic and unprofessional. I want my time back.

Questions

3Sum Add large floating-point numbers Closed/longest palindrome string Balance bracket

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1,861 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

14%

Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive54%

Neutral30%

Negative16%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

Meta Work Experiences

Good Colleagues, Perks, But Publicity

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Great colleagues, nice perks, ok work.

Cons: Not much, except for bad publicity.

Good Colleagues, Perks, But Publicity

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Great colleagues, nice perks, ok work.

Cons: Not much, except for bad publicity.

Amazing place to work at

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

October 13, 2013

Pros: 1. Surrounded by very intelligent people 2. Opportunity to experiment! 3. Great perks and benefits 4. Love the snackbar

Cons: 1. Product teams are too obsessed with gathering likes rather than adding value to the social network. 2. Sometimes overly optimistic about certain products. 3. HR is on the slower side. 4. Food/cafes are crappy compared to other companies in the Bay Area.

Amazing place to work at

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

October 13, 2013

Pros: 1. Surrounded by very intelligent people 2. Opportunity to experiment! 3. Great perks and benefits 4. Love the snackbar

Cons: 1. Product teams are too obsessed with gathering likes rather than adding value to the social network. 2. Sometimes overly optimistic about certain products. 3. HR is on the slower side. 4. Food/cafes are crappy compared to other companies in the Bay Area.

Nice place to work, but lacks clear future vision

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Nice food and a nice team; still allows some WFH (instead of 5D RTO).

Cons: PIP pressure; not clear vision about the product.

Nice place to work, but lacks clear future vision

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Nice food and a nice team; still allows some WFH (instead of 5D RTO).

Cons: PIP pressure; not clear vision about the product.

Good Colleagues, Perks, But Publicity

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Great colleagues, nice perks, ok work.

Cons: Not much, except for bad publicity.

5.0
Good Colleagues, Perks, But Publicity
Software Engineer • Current Employee
July 4, 2022
Pros: Great colleagues, nice perks, ok work.
Cons: Not much, except for bad publicity.

Amazing place to work at

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

October 13, 2013

Pros: 1. Surrounded by very intelligent people 2. Opportunity to experiment! 3. Great perks and benefits 4. Love the snackbar

Cons: 1. Product teams are too obsessed with gathering likes rather than adding value to the social network. 2. Sometimes overly optimistic about certain products. 3. HR is on the slower side. 4. Food/cafes are crappy compared to other companies in the Bay Area.

5.0
Amazing place to work at
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
October 13, 2013
Pros: 1. Surrounded by very intelligent people 2. Opportunity to experiment! 3. Great perks and benefits 4. Love the snackbar
Cons: 1. Product teams are too obsessed with gathering likes rather than adding value to the social network. 2. Sometimes overly optimistic about certain products. 3. HR is on the slower side. 4. Food/cafes are crappy compared to other companies in the Bay Area.

Nice place to work, but lacks clear future vision

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Nice food and a nice team; still allows some WFH (instead of 5D RTO).

Cons: PIP pressure; not clear vision about the product.

4.0
Nice place to work, but lacks clear future vision
Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
April 24, 2025
Pros: Nice food and a nice team; still allows some WFH (instead of 5D RTO).
Cons: PIP pressure; not clear vision about the product.

Meta Interview Questions

Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses

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

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

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.

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