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Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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Washington, DCPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first stage for me was a recruiter screen, then a more technical conversation, and eventually I was brought into a formal interview loop.

I ended up with five interviews total, each about twenty-five minutes, and they ran over three days online. Of the five, two were technical and the other three were more behavioral and scope-focused.

The pace felt deliberate but intense. The technical interviews pushed on problem solving, while the behavioral/scope rounds kept pulling me back to how I worked—how I explained tradeoffs, how I handled ambiguity, and how I communicated when the situation needed structure. There was a fast handoff between conversations, so I didn’t get much time to decompress between rounds.

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