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Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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

My interview journey had a pretty clear rhythm: three coding rounds and one behavioral round, with no hiring manager chat for the new grad track.

I moved through the process quickly once I was scheduled, and I remember paying attention to pace because the interviews expected working solutions for two LeetCode-style questions per coding round.

The recruiter screen came first and set the tone around my experience and ownership of scalable systems. Then I got a phone coding round where I was given two medium, tagged problems with a tight 45-minute window. After that, the onsite loop doubled down on similar LeetCode problems: two coding rounds that felt comparable to the phone format, plus system design and behavioral. The system design

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