Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Meta SDE2 loop centered on an AI-enabled coding round that I couldn’t really find much solid information about beforehand.

The process began with a phone screen, where I solved two coding questions—Add Strings and Top K Frequent Elements.

After that, I moved into the AI-enabled coding round, again focused on similar coding problems, and then into an architecture round. The architecture discussion felt more about how I’d structure solutions than just cranking through algorithm steps.

I didn’t receive an offer, and what made the experience stick was how unfamiliar that AI-enabled portion felt compared to the more standard coding interviews. Still, the overall loop was paced in a way that matched the described

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