Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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Menlo Park, CAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started in the usual way with a recruiter coordinating things, and then it moved quickly into multiple technical rounds.

In my case it ended up as two LeetCode-style coding rounds, followed by rounds that covered product or system architecture and behavioral. Meta also had an AI-enabled coding component in the mix, which changed the feel of the coding portion compared to a typical interview.

The AI-enabled round was the one that threw me off. I didn’t complete all parts of that coding task, and after that, it made sense that my application didn’t go much further. When I reflected on it, the time limits and the number of moving pieces across the loop mattered more than I expected. Even though the overall

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