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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California

January 1, 2017

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

The interview process involved two rounds of phone interviews.

Each round was 45 minutes and included a coding test. This was not too bad.

We also discussed your experience and your reasons for applying to Facebook. The questions were similar to LeetCode medium-level problems.

The hiring process was very fast.

Questions

Questions on LeetCode

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 46 interview experiences for the Meta Software Engineer (Internship) role in Menlo Park, California.

Success Rate

43%

Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Menlo Park, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive78%

Neutral20%

Negative2%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Menlo Park, California.

Meta Work Experiences

Exceptional Experience At Meta

Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

January 27, 2022

Pros: Everything is fine at Meta.

Cons: I love working at Meta; I do not provide any cons.

Exceptional Experience At Meta

Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

January 27, 2022

Pros: Everything is fine at Meta.

Cons: I love working at Meta; I do not provide any cons.

Good Benefits, Tough Times

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

January 29, 2023

Pros: Good benefits for the engineers.

Cons: Company not doing well now.

Good Benefits, Tough Times

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

January 29, 2023

Pros: Good benefits for the engineers.

Cons: Company not doing well now.

Great Perks, Imposter Syndrome

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

January 19, 2015

Pros: Q&A on Fridays with Zuck, where anyone can ask anything (culture) awesome people food (breakfast, lunch, dinner & micro kitchens) choose which team to join (aka what you will work on) one-on-ones with your manager every week moving around is encouraged (hack-a-month etc) dentist & health centre onsite gym onsite (even includes a bouldering rock) performance review process

Cons: I feel like an imposter, which doesn't have a positive effect on my work-life balance. The gym is quite small and has no sand volleyball court.

Great Perks, Imposter Syndrome

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

January 19, 2015

Pros: Q&A on Fridays with Zuck, where anyone can ask anything (culture) awesome people food (breakfast, lunch, dinner & micro kitchens) choose which team to join (aka what you will work on) one-on-ones with your manager every week moving around is encouraged (hack-a-month etc) dentist & health centre onsite gym onsite (even includes a bouldering rock) performance review process

Cons: I feel like an imposter, which doesn't have a positive effect on my work-life balance. The gym is quite small and has no sand volleyball court.

Exceptional Experience At Meta

Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

January 27, 2022

Pros: Everything is fine at Meta.

Cons: I love working at Meta; I do not provide any cons.

5.0
Exceptional Experience At Meta
Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
January 27, 2022
Pros: Everything is fine at Meta.
Cons: I love working at Meta; I do not provide any cons.

Good Benefits, Tough Times

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

January 29, 2023

Pros: Good benefits for the engineers.

Cons: Company not doing well now.

4.0
Good Benefits, Tough Times
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
January 29, 2023
Pros: Good benefits for the engineers.
Cons: Company not doing well now.

Great Perks, Imposter Syndrome

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

January 19, 2015

Pros: Q&A on Fridays with Zuck, where anyone can ask anything (culture) awesome people food (breakfast, lunch, dinner & micro kitchens) choose which team to join (aka what you will work on) one-on-ones with your manager every week moving around is encouraged (hack-a-month etc) dentist & health centre onsite gym onsite (even includes a bouldering rock) performance review process

Cons: I feel like an imposter, which doesn't have a positive effect on my work-life balance. The gym is quite small and has no sand volleyball court.

5.0
Great Perks, Imposter Syndrome
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
January 19, 2015
Pros: Q&A on Fridays with Zuck, where anyone can ask anything (culture) awesome people food (breakfast, lunch, dinner & micro kitchens) choose which team to join (aka what you will work on) one-on-ones with your manager every week moving around is encouraged (hack-a-month etc) dentist & health centre onsite gym onsite (even includes a bouldering rock) performance review process
Cons: I feel like an imposter, which doesn't have a positive effect on my work-life balance. The gym is quite small and has no sand volleyball court.

Meta Interview Questions

Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses

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

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

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.

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