Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

October 10, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process included two LCs, one medium and one hard. There was also a behavioral interview, which was pretty straightforward. The recruiter was friendly, but the technical interview was somewhat challenging to complete.

Questions

LC medium and LC hard on DS&A

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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