Meta Machine Learning Engineer Phone Screen Questions
22+ questions from real Meta Machine Learning Engineer Phone Screen rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.
What does the Meta Phone Screen round test?
The Meta phone screen typically lasts 45-60 minutes and evaluates core Machine Learning Engineer fundamentals. Candidates should expect 1-2 algorithmic problems, basic system design discussion at senior levels, and questions about relevant experience. The goal is to confirm technical competence before bringing candidates onsite.
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Meta Machine Learning Engineer Phone Screen Questions
Meta Software Enigneer - Initial Prescreen stage timeline
I recently interviewed for a Production Engineer (University Grad) role. After I was moved to the initial prescreen stage, I submitted the questionnaire within a couple of days and received an invitat
Meta Machine Learning Engineer Fulltime Tech Phone Screen Interview Experience
This post was last edited by yah007 on 2025-9-30 19:30 Coding: First Question: LeetCode Yi Si Si Bar Second Question: Similar to LeetCode Yi Ling Ling Si VO: Coding Round 1: LeetCode: Qi Er Yi Er, Sim
Meta E4 Full Loop | Pass & Offer accepted
I completed the Meta E4 Full Loop for Software Engineer, Machine Learning and received an offer. Here you have the process: Phone screen - Coding challenge. Two medium questions from Leetcode Top...
Helping the community Q1. Implement cd. Given current working directory and argument move to final path E.g. cwd - /a/b/c arg - d Output - /a/b/c/d Missed one case while explaining the...
Meta | Research ML | USA
Phone Screen: Palindrome with k removes Next largest permutation Onsite: Make big island Cheese game Random pick (only return from largest) LCA ML Design: Design ads evaluation framework Behavioral: Asked about my research, why phd? why leave to industry?...
Meta MLE E4/E5 Pass/Fail
Hi, I recently completed my onsite at meta for MLE (E4/E5). Phone Screen Coding: 2 medium -- solved both problems with optimal solutions. Moved to onsite on the next day. Round 1 [coding] 2 medium...
Meta SWE ML E5 | Onsite + Phone screen
Giving back to the community. # Phone screen Standard 2 questions 40 mins 1. https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-largest-element-in-an-array/description/ Asked should I do heap or quickselect. Interviewer asked me to explain how both of them work...
Meta Phone Screen MLE E5
Giving back to community Question 1: https://leetcode.com/problems/lowest-common-ancestor-of-a-binary-tree-iii/description/ First gave O(n) solution but E wanted me to optimize. Then gave O(1) solution Follow-up: "How can you prove that the O(1) solution would converge?" I fumbled...
Meta | E4 MLE | NYC | Offer
I want to give back to the community which was incredibly helpful to my interview preparation. Background: - Years of Experience: 0 (Recently completed a PhD with one internship at a FAANG...
Meta IC4 Phone Screen SWE-ML
Hello, I had my phone screen a few days ago. It was a success so I\'m preparing for the final round of interviews. Phone Screen 1. Regular LC easy problem. 2. https://leetcode.com/problems/word-break-ii/description/ This was a...
META | Phone Screen | E5/E6 | London | MLE
Had the Phone screen with Meta Yesterday. The phone screen was for E5/E6, hence it is 1 hr . First 15 minutes was for behavioural questions and then I was...
Pass / Fail - MLE 2 (E4) @ Meta
Hey guys, Phone screen (Oct 3rd week) tree traversal - similar to boundary of tree array traversal - similar to minimum subarray k sum Aced - move to onsite - got back in ~5...
Facebook | E4 | NYC | Spring 2021 [Offer]
Status: New grad, PhD CS Top 20 CS school Position: Research Scientist at Facebook Location: NYC Date: Spring 2021 Technical Phone Screen (1 hour) - Behavioural questions - Questions about my research experience -...
Facebook | Phone | Subarray Sum Equals K & Min Remove to Make Valid Parentheses
I had a technical phone screen on 4/15 for SWE-ML. 45 mins with two coding questions. Interviewer was nice, tried to help me when i got stuck. Personally haven\'t had...
Location : London Post : Software Engineer, Machine Learning (MLE) YOE : 4 I had my phone screen with facebook for MLE recently. Question asked : Let\'s say we have database all the customer...
[NDA] Facebook SWE Interview Experience (Menlo Park/ New York / Seattle)
Just received an offer from Facebook. So excited as I\'ve been preparing for almost half a year and finally! During this half year, Leetcoding has become my daily routine and...
Last week I had my facebook phone interview for Ph.D. intern(ML). The interviewer asked me the following question. You are given a dictionary of word and a sentence. Find all the...
Done with my FB phone screen this week. Two questions: 1. Easy (not on LC) - this was a tree problem, not that difficult. 2. LC Hard tagged FB The interviewer was...
recently had my coding phone interview for software engineer machine learning role where i had these 2 questions. 1. https://leetcode.com/problems/k-closest-points-to-origin/ 2. https://leetcode.com/problems/intersection-of-two-arrays/
Meta IC5 interview experience - Thoughts?
I recently completed the Meta interview loop for an IC5 Machine Learning role and would appreciate feedback on my performance, chances for the role, downleveling to IC4, or rejection. Here’s my backgr
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