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Software Engineer Interview Experience

January 1, 2018
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first stage involved two phone interviews with coding using collaborative software like CollabEdit.

A couple of days later, an on-site interview was offered.

I was given the option to fly out to Menlo Park the very next day or interview over Skype. I chose the latter due to time constraints.

The first interviewer (second stage), after going over my experience, asked me to design a simple web-based editor (like CollabEdit). Questions about basic tree manipulation followed, as the DOM was represented as a tree.

This interview ran long, hence I was late to the second one.

I was asked to quickly implement a solution to the N-Queens problem for the second interview. I couldn't finish answering before time ran out.

Questions

Provide a solution to the N-queens problem.

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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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