Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter reached out on LinkedIn, I went into a scheduled screening where we covered my background and what I expected from the new role.

The conversation was clearly a gating step: if alignment looked good, I’d move forward.

The technical sequence followed the familiar pattern—first a phone screen, then an onsite with a mix of coding, behavioral, and system design. On the coding side, the problems were LeetCode-style and I had to be clear about my approach while I wrote code. Some questions were very BFS-leaning, including a pathfinding task on a matrix where the goal was to get from one corner to the opposite.

I wasn’t successful, and the part that stuck was how much the rounds assumed a strong grasp of the specific

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