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Software Engineer Interview Experience

August 1, 2014
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by a Facebook recruiter and offered an interview for a Software Engineer Internship.

I had two interviews, both a combination of talking on the phone and coding on collabedit.com.

The first interview took place about five days after I was first contacted about the position. The interviewer asked a few questions about projects I'd done and then started with programming questions.

The second interview happened a week later, and the interviewer dove straight into coding problems. I was asked general algorithm questions, such as:

  • Get the n-th Fibonacci number
  • Find the square root of a number
  • Find the depth of a binary tree
  • Merge two arrays

Both interviewers saved time at the end for any questions I wanted to ask them.

Questions

Display the sorted output of a merge of any number of sorted arrays. Then, do it again, more efficiently.

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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.

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