Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

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New York, NYPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process kicked off with a recruiter call, followed by an online assessment that was made of a five-part coding problem.

The parts were built on each other, and the recruiter even mentioned that one new section wouldn’t count toward the decision.

After that, the coding rounds continued with an interviewer-based virtual onsite format. The onsite included two coding rounds, a system design round, and a behavioral round.

Overall it felt like a lot of moving pieces, and the difficulty was high enough that the layered OA structure kept me on edge. I didn’t get an offer, but I walked away feeling like I went through a complete technical loop rather than just one-off interviews.

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