Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Toronto, ONPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a coding-focused round that ran for about 45 minutes, where I had two questions to tackle.

I pushed hard to get to working solutions, and I remember an “optimization” follow-up that forced me to revisit my approach and improve it beyond the initial working version.

After that, the loop expanded into broader topics. I had behavioral questions tied to how I handled work, and I also ran into system design where I got stuck on a database-related part of a leaderboard design. That single section became the weak spot, and it colored how I felt about the overall round.

On the technical side, networking also showed up as its own dedicated interview, where I discussed protocols like TCP,

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