Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The early part of my process was built around two main rounds that were scheduled together.

The first round had a conversation-style segment about programming engineering basics alongside a coding component using a platform like Coderpad. After that, the process shifted into a more traditional LeetCode-style coding round, plus behavioral and systems.

A later version of the journey I went through also included two screening rounds and then two loop interview sections with multiple steps, ending with team matching. In that loop, the questions pulled in fundamentals like computer networks and operating systems, and the systems-focused part specifically leaned into Unix systems.

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