Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process began with an OA, and it leaned into classic backend coding territory.

The questions looked fair and were in the LeetCode easy-to-medium range, but the OA still had strict expectations about finishing every part. I felt like I could make progress, yet it became clear that partial completion wasn’t enough.

Alongside the coding work, there were behavioral questions presented as multiple choice. Those didn’t feel very meaningful to me at the time, but the “right” answers were pretty obvious, which made it feel more like a formality than a real assessment.

I didn’t get an offer. Overall, it felt like the bar for completion and thoroughness mattered a lot more than

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