Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a recruiter call that was short—around fifteen minutes—and mostly explained what the interview steps would look like.

After that, I went into a coding screen where I was given two LeetCode problems to finish within about 45 minutes. The interview pace was fast enough that time felt like the real constraint, not just difficulty.

What surprised me was how much the technical portion showed up even early. I’d expected more of a purely fit-focused discussion, but the screens were clearly about coding performance. Later, I ended up facing additional rounds that leaned into behavioral and system design topics; some questions were less about pure coding and more about demonstrating how I thought in

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