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Software Engineer Interview Experience

May 1, 2025
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process is biased, at least for software engineering jobs.

I am someone who is neurodivergent and trying to focus on and improve my soft skills.

I like to create software, but it is not the center of my world.

Meta's interviews are geared towards people who are rocket scientists, electrical engineers, or people who have "gifted," "talented," or "genius" level IQs.

Their coding exercises focus only on a very small and specific part of software development. Successful software is more than just about algorithms and data structures.

Questions

// Problem Statement

Write a function that, given a binary tree of integers, returns the sums of all the root-to-leaf paths.

// Example

// Input: // 2 // /
// 3 5 // /
// 1 5

// Output: // [6, 10, 7]

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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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