Meta Software Engineer interview experience

It started with the usual recruiter coordination, then I ended up with a standard four-round onsite plus an added AI coding round—two coding rounds, a system design round, a behavioral round, and then the AI-enabled coding piece on top of that.

I’d prepared pretty intensely and still found where things slipped. Coding execution under time pressure was the biggest gap for me: I could solve the problems, but I wasn’t always optimal on the first pass, and I spent too long re-deriving approaches instead of recognizing patterns quickly. System design was another area—my background was heavy on