Meta·Software Engineer

Meta Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt very “coding first.” I ended up with a timed LeetCode-style screen that asked two questions to be done in 40 minutes.

One was easy and the other skewed medium to hard, and the time pressure made everything feel rushed—especially with how quickly the interviewer moved on.

The next screens followed a similar pattern: Zoom-based coding from home with no real IDE, just a text editor setup, and both prompts felt like LeetCode variants. One question involved parsing, and I remember the interviewers not being overly generous with hints. Even when I was trying to work through edge cases, it came across as if the evaluation was about syntax and correctness under pressure.

Some of the rounds really leaned into hard

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