Software Engineering Manager Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California
Process
The first interview was a phone call with a Sr. Manager, which was mostly an informational call.
The full interview loop consisted of 6 interviews:
- 2 system design
- 2 management
- 1 coding
- 1 behavioral
Overall, the interview was handled well.
One negative point is the lack of response after the interviews if you don't make it. Facebook, please close the loop even if you don't select the candidate, so they get some closure.
Questions
System Design
Design a Bitly/TinyURL system.
Design a system that takes in latitude and longitude and returns the closest 5 locations.
Coding
Find the maximum path in a tree.
Behavioural
Discuss one project that you considered most successful. The interviewer will dive into all aspects of this project.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineering Manager role in Menlo Park, California.
Success Rate
Meta's interview process for their Software Engineering Manager roles in Menlo Park, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Meta's Software Engineering Manager interview process in Menlo Park, California.
Meta Work Experiences
- 4.0Engaging Work, Frequent ChangesSoftware Engineering Manager • Former EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesApril 2, 2025Pros: Smart, interesting people, interesting problems.Cons: Lots of re-orgs, change in direction, "alien-chess".
- 5.0FB: Hard Problems and Fun PeopleSoftware Engineering Manager • Current EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesDecember 8, 2016Pros: It's a social networking company, so it pre-selects for social people. Most of my coworkers want to be friends in addition to colleagues. The scale is amazing. It's exciting but also humbling to sit in a room and talk about how 1 billion people will use our product. With that scale comes the requirement for precision in algorithms, data structures, and code clarity that I've never experienced before.Cons: Being very data-driven can push out more sentiment-based projects and sometimes puts too much of a burden on teams to identify exactly the right metric to optimize for. Tooling for developers is improving, but with such a large codebase and so many developers, creating a branch, making a change, and building can take a long time. This is especially true on mobile.
- 5.0Culture of ExcellenceSoftware Engineering Manager • Current EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesMay 15, 2021Pros: No BS, no politics – a refreshing culture and an engineers' paradise.Cons: Not a con, but you have to reset your top-down manager working style if you are used to it and embrace a bottom-up culture.
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