Meta·Machine Learning Engineer

Meta Machine Learning Engineer interview experience

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Menlo Park, CAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My path started with the usual recruiter discussion about my background, then a technical screen on coderpad.

That screen felt like a speed test: I had to solve two LeetCode medium problems with a tight timer, and even though the concepts weren’t exotic, I had to write clean code while continuously explaining what I was doing.

The onsite was a five-round loop and the hardest part was clearly the ML design round. I was asked to design something like a large-scale recommendation system for news feed, and the discussion went deep into what data you’d use, what features matter, what models to choose, and how to evaluate them. After that, the system design round felt more traditional and

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