Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Menlo Park, CAPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process took about two months end to end, and it had a lot more moving parts than I expected.

It started with a short 30-minute recruiter call, then I went into a 90-minute online assessment with four questions. I didn’t have time to finish all four, but somehow I still passed that stage.

Next came a LeetCode-style technical screening, and then the final onsite loop was packed: two LeetCode rounds, one behavioral, and one system design round. After that, they scheduled a behavioral follow-up because they said I hadn’t shown enough signal in my earlier interviews for “Navigating Ambiguity” and “Driving Results.” The follow-up didn’t feel redundant in the moment, but after I completed

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