Meta Software Engineer interview experience

I started with a round that had two LeetCode problems, then later moved into a final stage where I did two rounds with two LeetCode problems each. The questions were the kind you can recognize from LeetCode and they were presented in a way that felt like they were sorting by frequency.

After those coding rounds, I had to do system design for building a messaging system, and then I went into a behavioral portion that felt standard and straightforward. What surprised me most was how directly the process stayed tied to the common LeetCode set, and how the system design piece came in cleanly at