Senior Engineer’s Guide to Meta Interviews + Questions

A Senior Engineer’s Guide to Meta's Interview Process and Questions

The Meta Hiring Process and Common Questions

~20 minute read

Part 1: Differences between the FAANGs

Part 2: A guide to each FAANG company’s interview process

Meta’s interview process and questions

Meta’s interview process consists of the following steps:

Call with a Meta recruiter
Technical phone screen (and possibly a second technical phone screen)
Onsite interviews

Before you interview with Meta, read our guide on negotiating with them.

Step 1: Recruiter call

Please see the previous section called “A note about recruiter calls”. Also read our guide to negotiating with Meta.

Step 2: Technical phone screen

Meta's technical phone screen is a 45-minute coding interview that focuses on data structures and algorithms.
At the beginning of the interview, your interviewer will ask you a question or two about your resume and recent work that you've done. This portion will take 5 minutes.

Meta’s technical phone screens are conducted in CoderPad. If you've never used it, you may want to play around in their sandbox and get familiar with their environment before your real interview.

Step 3: Onsite interviews

The typical Meta onsite will consist of the following:

At least two coding interviews
Two system design OR product design interviews
One behavioral interview

AI usage in Meta interviews

Meta has introduced an AI-assisted round as part of the onsite. As of Q4 2025, it’s in pilot mode, so not every interviewee will get it.

Types of Meta interviews and what to expect

There are four main types of interviews you’re going to encounter when you apply for an engineering job at Meta – a new AI-assisted coding round (rolling out in Q4 2025), more standard coding interviews, behavioral interviews, and either a system design or product design interview.

How Meta makes hiring decisions

Meta’s candidate review and feedback process is usually completely asynchronous. Sometimes, they’ll do a live debrief but it’s rare. This means there’s a low likelihood for an interviewer to “fight” for a candidate.

Behavioral interview

Behavioral questions are not standardized: interviewers can ask you whatever they want. Behavioral rounds are of medium/low importance at Meta.

Here is a list of questions to get you started:

“What project are you most proud of and why?”
“Tell me about a recent day working that was really great and/or fun.”
“Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker.”

How to prepare

Your recruiter should send you a practice environment link. If they don't, ask for it. Practice building new features on existing codebases using AI tools like Cursor or similar.