Meta Software Engineer interview experience

I went through two rounds of LeetCode-medium style coding interviews, each timed at around forty-five minutes with two questions per round. The questions were the kind of standard DSA problems I expected for an internship track.

The thing that mattered wasn’t just arriving at a solution quickly—it was demonstrating follow-through. When I finished early, the interviewers asked for improvements or alternative approaches, which pushed me to refine rather than simply stop.

I ended up getting an offer. The interviews weren’t presented as unpredictable or “trick” problems, and that clarity helped