Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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Menlo Park, CAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I ended up getting pulled into a full loop that was clearly organized and pretty intense technically.

The onsite was four rounds: a traditional coding round, an AI-enabled coding round where I had access to an AI assistant, a system design or product architecture round, and finally a behavioral round. The structure made it easy to know what was coming next, but it still felt demanding because each round tested a different mode of thinking.

I spent time preparing across the categories I expected to see—coding for core problem solving, plus system design and product architecture thinking, and then STAR-style behavioral answers. The AI-enabled coding round stood out because it wasn’t just

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