Software Engineering New Grad Interview Experience - Palo Alto, California
Process
Facebook came to our career fair, and I applied online. I received an on-campus interview.
Their full-time interview process for new grads works as follows:
- 1-on-1 interview with a Facebook Engineer (1st day)
- 1-on-1 interview with a Facebook Engineer (2nd day, if you did well enough the first day)
On-site interview at Facebook HQ.
Their interviews are almost completely technical.
Questions
Find a needle in a haystack:
Given two C-strings (null-terminated), return a pointer to the location where the needle occurs in the haystack, or NULL otherwise.
Given a binary tree, print the first level, followed by a newline, the second level, followed by a newline, etc.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineering New Grad role in Palo Alto, California.
Success Rate
Meta's interview process for their Software Engineering New Grad roles in Palo Alto, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Software Engineering New Grad interview process in Palo Alto, California.
Meta Work Experiences
- 5.0Great Learning Opportunity and the best PeopleSoftware Engineering New Grad • Current EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesNovember 13, 2012Pros: People are awesome. They help you grow, and it's a very open-minded and supportive environment. Great perk. I feel less politics in my career track, as long as you gain support and trust from team members.Cons: People are too good, and you feel peer pressure in terms of trying to survive at a company where many of the people enjoy and love what they do and are full of passion.
- 5.0Fast Learning, Great PeopleSoftware Engineering New Grad • Current EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesOctober 16, 2013Pros: Fast pace, a lot to learn, comfortable environment, nice people, flat promotion.Cons: The production team was too revenue-driven and built a lot of crappy code.
- 5.0I love working at FacebookSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeePalo Alto, California, United StatesAugust 3, 2010Pros: - Meritocracy - Freedom for engineers - Interesting problems, cool company, lots of unique opportunities - Benefits are great, I love free foodCons: - The environment can be overly intense for some.
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