Interview Experience Analysis for Meta

Hey everyone,I recently finished my full interview loop with Meta and unfortunately got rejected at the end. Still, I wanted to share my full experience since posts like these really helped me during preparation.📍 Recruiter Reach-out (25th Sept)A recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn and asked to sch...

I recently interviewed with Meta for their Product role and wanted to share my experience across the phone screen and onsite rounds. ⸻ Before the phone interview, I completed two assessments: • A coding assessment with 4 stages • A work-style assessment ⸻ Phone Screen 1. Count number of 1s in...

## Non-AI Onsite Coding ### Question 1: Column Traversal Given a binary tree (NOT BST), print the column traversal from leftmost column to rightmost column. If two nodes are in the "same column", the top most node in that column should appear before the bottom most node. Pretty straightforward tr...

The onsite process1 AI coding round1 non-AI coding round (more leetcodey)1 sys design1 behavioralThe AI Coding RoundThe real thingI was given a codebase which consisted of a main.py, test.py, solve.py, utils.py and a data/ directory consisting of txt files with bunch of words and needed to find some...

How to PrepThrow everything you know about leetcode out the window for this round. Grinding leetcode won't help you pass this roundYou will be given a coderpad with "AI Assist" mode, but you can only choose from the lightweight foundation models (eg: o4 mini, claude haiku, llama 4 maverick) in the A...

Just got done with my first Technical screen in Meta. I was asked two questions: 1. Find the minimum element in each level of a Binary Tree. Similar to LC102. Binary Tree Level Order Traversal, but just need to keep track of the minimum element in each level. Follow-up: What if we have to do this i...

Graduation: Tier-1 ITTotal Working Experience: 4+ yearsCurrent Position: SMTS at MNCLocation: Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaInterview: Oct, 2025I was recently approached by an HR from Meta for a Software Engineer role in Meta. The interviewer asked me the below questions in the phone screen round.https...

Phone ScreenLC 408.LC 791.OnsiteCoding 1.LC 1650. Interviewer wants to know WHY the optimal (no extra space) solution worksLC 1249.Coding 2.LC 8 - VariationNot able to find exact LC.Something like — “0-1-2 BFS on a Grid”Problem StatementYou are given an m × n grid.Each cell contains an integer value...

Screening 2 questions, easy-medium level 1. 3 sorted arrays, merge them 2. https://leetcode.com/problems/random-pick-with-weight/description/ - didnt know this at the time but still managed to solve optimally Full Loop 1. Behavioural 2. DSA round 1 1. Toeplitz matrix but as an array 2...