Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

Positive

Mountain View, CAPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiter outreach led straight into a technical screen that consisted of two interviews.

The first part was related to Linux commands, and the second part shifted into triaging and debugging.

Both sections felt like they matched the profile of a performance/operations-style interview rather than pure algorithm practice. If someone had experience in a site reliability or DevOps environment, the format would probably feel more natural, but I still had to be precise and think in terms of diagnosis.

It wasn’t presented as an open-ended puzzle marathon, and the questions had a practical edge. I didn’t end up advancing after this screen, and the experience reinforced that this wasn’t

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