Meta Software Engineer interview experience

In the OA-to-screening area, the questions leaned heavily on DS topics—lists, queues, stacks, and strings—with no graphs, trees, or DP involved. Alongside that, I also faced a low-level networking component.

In the full-loop stage, the pattern repeated: I had coding rounds built around the same core DS themes, and I also got a deeper networking round that included routing algorithms like BGP and OSPF. The rounds felt designed to test both how I handle standard algorithm categories and how I reason through networking concepts under interview conditions.

Across the experience, my sense was