Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

London, EnglandPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I felt good early in the loop.

I had a screening round where I solved two coding problems successfully: one was a Battleship-style challenge, and the other involved reading a file and finding repeated word occurrences, plus walking through time and space complexity. After that, the technical part shifted to networking fundamentals.

In that networking round, I went through topics like TCP/IP, basic network topology, how HSRSH communication works, and then dug into packet drop analysis, TCP flow control, and congestion control. I did well overall and even got positive feedback from the interviewers.

Then the wait hit

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