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      Machine Learning Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 22, 2010
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Palo Alto, CA

      Other Machine Learning Software Engineer interview reviews for Meta

      Software Engineer - Machine Learning Interview

      May 18, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Dec 2009

      Interview

      There was a phone interview with two very weak, very easy technical questions (e.g. basics of binary search). I then went in for a day with two 45-minute interviews, followed by a day with 3 interviews. Due to scheduling constraints, they scheduled next-day interviews (!), but as a result, one of the interviewers didn't show and I had to go find the recruiter, who found me someone else after a bit of apology and hassle. The interviews tended to be very similar. First, I'd be asked to talk about some sort of interesting research I did. After that, I'd have one or more algorithm/coding questions, where the first part would be to explain the solution to some algorithmic problem, and the second part would be to code it up. Sometimes one of the parts would be omitted, but every interviewer wanted to see code on the whiteboard. I liked the open feel of the office and culture, but found that people seemed more driven by the company's success and profit than by the fun problems they got to work on, which left me a little less attracted. However, for someone with more interest in business success than I have, that might be ideal. I'm sure there are interesting problems there, and there are plenty of smart people and it's a flexible environment. The vacation time is among the best, though other benefits are still lacking (e.g. investment matching). Compensation included a large proportion of stock grants, the value of which is still uncertain. Due to my timidity, I did not engage in any compensation negotiation, and my recruiter did not bring up the possibility of increasing it, which surprised me given that they knew I had a competing offer. I found that somewhat unwelcoming, but perhaps it's standard.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Suppose you have a matrix of numbers. How can you easily compute the sum of any rectangle (i.e. a range [row_start, row_end, col_start, col_end]) of those numbers? How would you code this?
      7 Answers
      15
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Meta in May 2026

      Interview

      April 26 Recruiter reached out with the assessment which includes a repository coding questions in which you need to pass 4 different tests and other is General Work style assessment. May 6 recruiter reached out to schedule 4 loop interviews May 13 First interview was AI ML System design Performed well in this one but was a little short in time Second and third was AI enabled coding interview in which the interviewer mentioned that use of AI won't penalize the results so I used it explained my thinking, wrote a nice prompt to AI which corrected all the code and passed all test cases in both round and this is where it went wrong I think I need to also write some code by myself but if they have given AI model and asking to use it then what is the requirement of taking a coding round rather than this they should take a DSA coding round to check the coding skills. Fourth round was general behavioral questions which went well as well

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      They asked a game question in one coding round and in the other one they asked a graph based repository question
      Answer question

      Software Engineer - Machine Learning Interview

      Dec 20, 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (London, England) in Dec 2025

      Interview

      First interview: recruiter call - general questions about CV and scope of work Second interview: technical screen - 20 min general interview questions, 40 min coding interview with medium leetcode questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Can you tell me about a time where you had to handle conflict? Leetcode medium coding questions
      Answer question

      Software Engineer - Machine Learning Interview

      Aug 8, 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Menlo Park, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)

      Interview

      1 recruiter screening 1 coding interview (leetcode medium) 4 interviews in one day (2 coding - leetcode medium, 1 behavioral, 1 system design) Whole process took 1 month, leetcode questions available under meta tag, for system design study recommended systems in depth

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a recommender system for instagram
      Answer question
      1