Meta

SWE Interview Experience

October 20, 2020

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had a phone screen interview for Facebook's Software Engineering Internship in 2021.

My interviewer asked me LeetCode questions and was very kind.

I did not get past the phone screen.

Questions

Check if a string is a palindrome.

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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

Fun Place, Hard To Follow

SWE • Current Employee

Pros: Fun, benefits are good. Everyone's there to help you.

Cons: It's hard to know what's going on within the company or different teams.

Fun Place, Hard To Follow

SWE • Current Employee

Pros: Fun, benefits are good. Everyone's there to help you.

Cons: It's hard to know what's going on within the company or different teams.

Engaging Work, Concerned Colleagues

SWE • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

October 14, 2024

Pros: The project is really interesting, and the colleagues are good.

Cons: layoff are putthing pressure on people

Engaging Work, Concerned Colleagues

SWE • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

October 14, 2024

Pros: The project is really interesting, and the colleagues are good.

Cons: layoff are putthing pressure on people

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.

Fun Place, Hard To Follow

SWE • Current Employee

Pros: Fun, benefits are good. Everyone's there to help you.

Cons: It's hard to know what's going on within the company or different teams.

5.0
Fun Place, Hard To Follow
SWE • Current Employee
July 30, 2019
Pros: Fun, benefits are good. Everyone's there to help you.
Cons: It's hard to know what's going on within the company or different teams.

Engaging Work, Concerned Colleagues

SWE • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

October 14, 2024

Pros: The project is really interesting, and the colleagues are good.

Cons: layoff are putthing pressure on people

5.0
Engaging Work, Concerned Colleagues
SWE • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
October 14, 2024
Pros: The project is really interesting, and the colleagues are good.
Cons: layoff are putthing pressure on people

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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