Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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Menlo Park, CAPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter screen and then a 45-minute technical screen with two coding questions, focused on string and array logic in a LeetCode-medium style.

The process then shifted into a four-round online loop right after that, back to back: systems/Linux, coding again, a design round, and finally behavioral.

The Linux round was the standout and honestly the hardest part. It began like a troubleshooting scenario about a slow server and then quickly went deeper into kernel-level concepts—syscalls and network behavior like retransmissions. I remember it becoming very tool-driven, with the need to be comfortable with things like tcpdump and strace, and that depth was a real filter.

The design round was about building a messaging platform at

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