Meta·Machine Learning Engineer

Meta Machine Learning Engineer interview experience

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

My process started with a recruiter conversation that covered my background and the kind of scope I’d be working within, especially around ML systems and leadership responsibilities.

After that, I had a prep call that laid out the flow, and then I moved into my first real technical round with an engineering manager. That round combined people leadership topics—managing ICs, handling low performance, doing 1:1s—with light system design. My system design thread was about scaling recommendation system infrastructure.

The rest of the onsite was a structured set of rounds: two coding interviews with a focus on clean solutions and tradeoffs, an ML system design round that was more real-world and end-to-end, a project retrospective about how I led, staffed, and scaled work, and

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