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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 1, 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in May 2020

      Interview

      Facebook emailed me often asking me to interview for a position there, and I finally did after I was ready to leave my job. I had an initial call with a recruiter who just gave me generic information. She then scheduled a technical interview for me, and I took 2 weeks to prepare. I did the interview on CoderPad over their video service. The interviewer didn't have the best grasp of English, so it was difficult for me to follow what they were asking. She asked me to do a simple algorithm implementation. I tried asking questions about what the expectations were for the work, and much of the time, she had difficulty explaining what she was asking, and would get flustered and realize she explained something wrong and have to walk it back. Once I got a good grasp on the conditions and the edge cases, I set about writing out the algorithm. There was no expectation for it to actually run, so I walked her through my logic. She didn't really say much, and changed the input and asked how that would change the output and I walked her through again. She then asked me for the Big(O) of the algorithm, and I gave her my answer - which I believe was correct. Nothing was said afterwards - I'm used to interviewers asking how I could have improved the algorithm. She left me about 3 minutes for questions for her, and that was it. Overall, it was not a great experience. These interviews in general seem geared towards kids right out of college, and not testing the abilities of someone with over 15 years of experience (me). I emailed the recruiter afterwards asking about next steps, and she said she'd get back to me the next week. Got a generic rejection email on Monday. I emailed asking for feedback as I was surprised, and was ignored. I sent my solution to 5 friends who are senior/principle engineers, and all of them said they have no idea why I was rejected. I've interviewed and worked at other prestigious tech organizations, and never had an experience like this before. I'm not sure what sort of candidate they're looking to attract with this experience, but I certainly would never entertain interviewing for a job there again.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Take an array of strings, and return a boolean value if they are in order, based on another array of strings indicating the weight of each character.
      1 Answer
      5

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 12, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Menlo Park, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)

      Interview

      I went through Meta's full interview loop for an E5/E6 Software Engineer role. The process included the standard four-round onsite: two coding rounds, a system design round, a behavioral round, and an AI coding round that Meta has added to their loop. I prepared extensively for each stage — grinding LeetCode-style problems for the coding rounds, building a library of system design references, and writing out STAR-format behavioral answers calibrated to Meta's E5/E6 expectations, drawing on my Oracle Cloud Infrastructure work across the Multicloud Observability team (control plane unification, data plane migration to Oracle Managed Kubernetes, and the Oracle Database at AWS buildout). Ultimately, I received a rejection with a one-year cooldown before I can reapply. Looking back honestly, a few weaknesses stood out: Coding execution under time pressure. While I could solve the problems, I wasn't always optimal on the first pass. I spent time re-deriving approaches instead of pattern-matching quickly, which cost me on the second problem in at least one round. System design depth vs. breadth tradeoff. My background is deep in cloud infrastructure and observability, so when the design prompt pulled toward consumer-scale product systems (feed ranking, social graph type problems), I leaned on general principles rather than Meta-specific intuition. I covered the fundamentals but didn't always drive the conversation into the nuanced tradeoffs interviewers wanted to hear. Behavioral calibration to Meta scale. My STAR stories were strong on technical substance, but a few of my impact framings were sized for Oracle's context rather than translated into the scale and cross-org influence language Meta's bar expects at E5/E6. AI coding round unfamiliarity. This was a newer format for me and I hadn't practiced it as deliberately as the traditional rounds, so my workflow with the AI tooling wasn't as fluid as it could have been. The cooldown gives me a clear runway to address each of these before reapplying.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 7, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Menlo Park, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)

      Interview

      Reached out to a recruiter via a friend. Directly got the invitation to schedule full loop interview. Completed Meta full loop interview process, with one reschedule. Participated in system design, behavioral, coding, and AI-enabled coding rounds, covering core software engineering and problem-solving skills.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 25, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Meta

      Interview

      started first round with 1 phone interview (2 questions), then second round with 2 onsite technical (4 questions), after one system design question and lastly 1 behavioral interview, here they asked quite alot of questions

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      merge 3 ordered lists together
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