Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Menlo Park, CAPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment and then moved into live conversations.

For the role I applied to, I first did an OA that used Codesignal, along with a behavioral questionnaire. After that, I hit a timed coding screen based on Meta’s LeetCode-tagged problems.

During the coding screen, I had two LeetCode-style questions in 45 minutes. Surprisingly, there weren’t any behavioral questions asked during that round—my focus was entirely on coding and correctness under time constraints.

Separately, I also did an earlier recruiter chat where we discussed role fit and my interest areas, including infrastructure-related work and things like SQL pipelines and real-time

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