Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Positive

New York, NYPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled into a pretty straightforward early process with two DSA-style questions that felt on the easier end.

One problem was centered around DFS, and the other was strings.

The questions were concrete and classic: I had to work on the diameter of a given tree, and then I had to check whether a string can be made a palindrome by removing at most one letter. It was less about obscure tricks and more about moving through the logic cleanly and staying organized as I built my approach.

Overall it felt manageable and didn’t drag on. I didn’t end up with an offer, but the experience was still clear in what it tested—graph traversal thinking plus careful string handling.

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