Meta Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions

I have solved almost 500 questions most of which was jan 2025 to July. Decided to try meta recently and reviewed my stuff and studied a bit. Phone screen started and my question was essentially next p

I just had my PE coding interview for Meta, and honestly, it didn’t go well. The phone screen is split into two parts: PE coding and PE basics. I was expecting more file-handling-related stuff or mayb

I had an interview for Software Engineer E4 position (US based) a few days ago. There are two medium LC questions (both appeared in top Meta tagged question in LC 30 days). For the first question, I i

Problem number one was easy, did it in about 5 minutes but spent a long time talking to interviewer because he wanted to see if I could save space (did `O(n)` space). I couldn't. Problem two I couldn'

Asked these 2 questions. 1. https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-palindrome/ Follow up 1: if a specific charset needs to be matched (a,e,z) and exclude anything else. How would you do it? (Use a hashset for...

I’ve been interviewing (8 yoe) with Meta, Uber, Netflix, and Snowflake and have failed literally every technical phone screen. And a few ai startups I passed DoorDash but then they said that head coun

Did my phone interview with Meta earlier this week, got 2 LC medium questions, solved one entirely on my own w/ the optimal solution, somehow spent a lot of of time estimating and discussing its runti

This happened weeks ago (in the US), but I’m now posting just to give back. First of all, I am in academia and I never leetcoded previously - but as a PhD I am not new to the topics. Also worked as a

I had 2 phone interviews with Meta, I had a really bad experience with the first one so they scheduled a second one. In the first interview I was asked : 1)...

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Meta E5 onsite - specialist role (computer vision) (note: I passed 11/13 coding interivews with 7-8 different companies in the last 6 months, these are the only two ones I failed) --- Screening...

Pretty late in posting this. The round was conducted on Feb, 2022. Interview format: 45 min coding round 5 min intro 35 min for coding 2 questions 5 min questions to the interviewer https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-two-binary-trees/ https://leetcode.com/problems/word-search/ Hope this helps...

I had a FB phone screen yesterday that didn\'t go particularly well. The question seemed like a variant of merge intervals, I believe? It was essentially: Given several schedules, find a...

Question: https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-palindrome-ii/ My second phone screen of the day and I think he wanted to ask 2 questions but only got to this one and i answered it by some help...

Just gave my technical phone screening round for Meta SE position , and it went like this. He first asked two behavioural questions regarding my projects. Then he asked two question for which i had to

Phone screen : Two questions , solved both with dry run (Sep 2025) Decision : Hire Coding 1 : Two question , solved both with dry run (Nov 2025) Decision : Hire AI coding : Solved only two levels only

https://preview.redd.it/kryisaof2ltg1.png?width=1776&format=png&auto=webp&s=c58679fd01ab8a64afb9923bbd56cda0f5a86bbd I was wondering if the initial screening is a standard part of the proc

The interviewer was ruthless and didn't talk much. After a few casual pleasantries, he started the coding questions. The following content requires a score of 188 or higher. You can already view it. T

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Timeline Phone Screen: 9/10, received notification of entering the Final Round 4 days later, gave myself two weeks to prepare. The Final Round consisted of four rounds, conducted over two days: 9/26: