Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

March 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone interview: 2 LC questions on a whiteboard website. You do not need to actually run the code, but you need to walk through the algorithm step by step. You need to talk to the interviewer about how you think about the solution before actually implementing it.

Questions

Two LeetCode questions:

One medium
One hard

Postorder traverse tree, and LeetCode 76.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1,805 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 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