Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started off in a way that immediately made things feel uncertain.

One of my interviewers didn’t seem to listen clearly and their English wasn’t easy for me to follow; when I started answering, they repeatedly cut me off and pushed for something different without making it obvious what they wanted. It put me in a frustrating loop of guessing what the target response was.

Separately, I also went through a more structured full loop style interview that split into multiple 60-minute parts. One segment was networking-focused, where I got questions about core protocols like TCP, BGP, IP, and also things like ARP and Ethernet. There was also a behavioral

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