Overall, a great internship experience
Overall, a great internship experience
I was able to work on a super supportive team/org that had good mentorship and work-life balance. Expectations were realistic, and both individual contributors and managers were invested in both their work and personal development.
People's experiences vary wildly depending on the team/org culture and expectations.
Performance review cycles appear to be stressful and often result in incentivizing short-term "progress" rather than building for the long term (as explained by a lot of the FTEs I talked to).
Put more emphasis on investing in workers and long-term value over immediate metrics.
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Meta Interview Experiences
Senior Software Engineer
Tree question. Couldn't give tips at all. Interviewer was disconnected and condescending for each reject in 45 minutes. Really terrible candidate experience. There have been few good experiences with Meta.
Data Engineer
First is the recruiter round, then a one-hour technical interview which included questions around SQL and Python. After that would be behavioural and other technical rounds. Other technical rounds would cover system design, etc.
Software Engineer
Pretty standard. Just grind LeetCode. They basically want you to make zero mistakes and solve problems like a robot. They don’t really care about your thought process, just that you find the most optimized solution ASAP.
Senior Software Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United StatesNovember 15, 2025Tree question. Couldn't give tips at all. Interviewer was disconnected and condescending for each reject in 45 minutes. Really terrible candidate experience. There have been few good experiences with Meta.
Data Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United StatesNovember 12, 2025First is the recruiter round, then a one-hour technical interview which included questions around SQL and Python. After that would be behavioural and other technical rounds. Other technical rounds would cover system design, etc.
Software Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United StatesNovember 8, 2025Pretty standard. Just grind LeetCode. They basically want you to make zero mistakes and solve problems like a robot. They don’t really care about your thought process, just that you find the most optimized solution ASAP.
