Meta Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
Updated Apr 23, 2026
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE) roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 37 days.
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Dec 2021, phone call. I got 3 times phone call. The process was nice, interviewers are nice engineers. And the hr also is very nice. They gave the interview result very fast.
2 Medium LC problem
What is your strength/weakness
diverse background & skillset
how do you expect this role to help the team deal with the challenge?what motivated you to join the company and what do you enjoy most working here?
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Meta in Oct 2021
Interview
First round screen. Brief introduction at the beginning for like 5min. Interviewer asked about postorder traversal of binary tree in both recursion and iterative methods. Some followups on complexity analysis.
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Question 1
First round screen. Asked about postorder traversal of binary tree in both recursion and iterative methods.