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Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It was a 45-minute phone interview with a software engineer.

He asked two questions about general coding.

The questions were not too difficult, but there were some corner cases that made it hard to be completely correct on the first attempt.

The time was also a little bit tight.

Questions

The first question is to find the largest and second largest value at each level of a binary tree. You don't need to return all values; just print them out.

The second question is to return a value from an array with a probability proportional to its weight within the array. For example, in an array [4, 5, 6], return 4 with probability 4/15, 5 with 5/15, and 6 with 6/15. You are given a function that returns a random real number between 0 and 1.

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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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