Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Seattle, WAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter chat, I had another initial screen that was technical over the phone with a PM.

The recruiter first went through my background and basically tested whether I’d be a fit for the team, but the momentum quickly shifted into coding. The PM round was about an hour long and focused on getting to a working solution live. It felt tough, mostly because the coding portion moved at a real interview pace and required me to keep pushing for correctness without spending too long on any one detour.

Overall it was a difficult experience, and I didn’t end up getting an offer. What stuck with me was how much the process felt like a gate: once the interviews started, there wasn’t much

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