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SWE Interview Experience - United States

April 4, 2022

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I received an invite for a virtual onsite interview.

I was asked two questions, both LeetCode mediums.

I highly recommend going through the most frequently asked Facebook questions, as that's what helped me the most.

Questions

One was based on BST, and the other was based on arrays and sorting.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 39 interview experiences for the Meta SWE role in United States.

Success Rate

18%

Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their SWE roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive59%

Neutral33%

Negative8%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's SWE interview process in United States.

Meta Work Experiences

Don't join. It's cancer now

SWE • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Money, maybe, if you get good RSUs.

Cons: Basically, everything. They are cutting corners everywhere.

Don't join. It's cancer now

SWE • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Money, maybe, if you get good RSUs.

Cons: Basically, everything. They are cutting corners everywhere.

Great Pay, Tough Balance

SWE • Current Employee

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Pros: Total compensation is very good.

Cons: Work-life balance is hard.

Great Pay, Tough Balance

SWE • Current Employee

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Pros: Total compensation is very good.

Cons: Work-life balance is hard.

Swedish

SWE • Former Employee

Pros: Comp, manager, org, perks, career growth.

Cons: Pressure, timelines, reviews, PIPs, leadership.

SWE • Former Employee

Pros: Comp, manager, org, perks, career growth.

Cons: Pressure, timelines, reviews, PIPs, leadership.

Don't join. It's cancer now

SWE • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Money, maybe, if you get good RSUs.

Cons: Basically, everything. They are cutting corners everywhere.

2.0
Don't join. It's cancer now
SWE • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
May 29, 2025
Pros: Money, maybe, if you get good RSUs.
Cons: Basically, everything. They are cutting corners everywhere.

Great Pay, Tough Balance

SWE • Current Employee

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Pros: Total compensation is very good.

Cons: Work-life balance is hard.

5.0
Great Pay, Tough Balance
SWE • Current Employee
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
May 18, 2025
Pros: Total compensation is very good.
Cons: Work-life balance is hard.

Swedish

SWE • Former Employee

Pros: Comp, manager, org, perks, career growth.

Cons: Pressure, timelines, reviews, PIPs, leadership.

3.0
Swedish
SWE • Former Employee
May 5, 2025
Pros: Comp, manager, org, perks, career growth.
Cons: Pressure, timelines, reviews, PIPs, leadership.

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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