Meta Software Engineer interview experience

The technical questions were medium-to-hard LeetCode style, and I remember the difficulty feeling real rather than just “hard for hard’s sake.” After that, I went through two rounds focused on system design.

The system design conversations were framed around scalable, classic interview problems, so there was a theory-heavy side to it. I expected to need some reading for system design, and that turned out to be accurate—more than I thought at the start. The LeetCode portions were comparatively more approachable; they felt like straight mediums even when the overall loop was labeled