Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After completing the online assessments, I went into a live coding interview where the pacing felt a bit odd from the start.

The interviewer asked whether I’d seen the question before, and when I said yes, I didn’t expect them to pivot.

They changed the problem midstream to something I said I hadn’t really prepared for, and then, after I solved that, they asked about the next one and again swapped to a problem I hadn’t seen. I remember feeling frustrated because it didn’t feel like I was being evaluated on consistency—it felt like I was being penalized for recognizing familiar patterns.

I pushed through and finished, but the overall experience left me not happy with how the conversation was managed. Even though I

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