Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a security and privacy engineering track, and the structure was very clear.

I started with a screening round; if I passed that, I moved into the main interview loop.

In the pre-screening round, I had two questions in 40 minutes. After that, the main loop consisted of four one-hour interviews. The overall difficulty felt high, and it was a lot to keep up with across multiple long sessions.

I didn’t get an offer, but I appreciated how the process was organized around progression from a shorter screening to a deeper set of interviews.

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