Meta Interview Questions
Practice 1,159 real Meta interview questions for 2026. Covers top categories — Coding & Algorithms, Analytics & Experimentation, Data Manipulation (SQL/Python), Behavioral & Leadership, and System Design — across Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Engineer, and Product Manager roles. Real questions from actual interviews with detailed solutions. Expect a software-engineering-heavy loop: timed algorithmic coding (trees, arrays, graph/maze problems, delimiter/CSV parsing), system-design prompts like leaderboards, flight search and online-judge architectures, and an increasingly common AI-assisted coding round that mirrors real workflows. Data Scientist rounds emphasize product analytics and experimentation—designing tests, diagnosing spend drops and bots, evaluating unconnected content, and writing SQL for multi-account, seller, and vehicle metrics. Machine Learning Engineer questions skew toward recommender and ranking work (place and friend recommendation, sparse-matrix ops, linear-regression derivations, newsfeed dislike models). Data Engineers focus on data modeling, ETL, capacity calculations, reservations/utilization queries, and production SQL/Python tasks. For interview preparation, prioritize timed coding practice, system-design templates, rigorous SQL drills (joins/CTEs/aggregation), clear A/B-testing frameworks, and concise STAR behavioral stories tied to measurable impact.
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Optimize a Fifteen-Sum Card Strategy
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Check and infer custom alphabet
You are working with an unknown language that uses a custom alphabetical order, such as ['a', 'd', 'c', 'b', ...]. Implement the following: 1. Check s...
Analyze spend cohort and source shifts
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Find least active countries
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Find Kth Largest and Tree Ancestors
In a technical phone interview, the candidate was asked two coding problems in the same round: 1. K-th largest element in an array Given an unsor...
Detect bots using comment distribution patterns
This question evaluates a candidate's competency in behavioral analytics, feature engineering, anomaly and bot detection, statistical validation, and ...
Compute daily active ads
This question evaluates proficiency in data manipulation and analytics engineering, focusing on time-based event aggregation, status-based filtering, ...
Extend BFS maze solver with keys and arrows
This question evaluates mastery of breadth-first search, state-space modeling for grid-based traversal, and handling augmented states like keys and on...
Maximize unique characters from a word list
This question evaluates algorithmic problem-solving skills focused on combinatorial subset selection and character-uniqueness constraints in strings, ...
Solve Matrix, Tree, Nested, LCA, Maze Tasks
Answer the following independent coding tasks. For each task, implement a clean API, handle edge cases, and analyze time and space complexity. 1. Trav...
Maximize concatenation length with unique chars
This question evaluates understanding of string manipulation, set-based uniqueness constraints, and combinatorial subset selection for maximizing conc...
Design a live video comments system
This question evaluates skills in designing scalable, low-latency real-time systems, covering fan-out delivery, ordering and consistency semantics, du...
Design a Top-K trending items service
This question evaluates competency in large-scale system design, real-time streaming ingestion, distributed aggregation, and trade-offs between exact ...
Extend cloud file system with copy and compression
In-Memory Cloud File System V2: Copy, Capacity Updates, Compress/Decompress Design an in-memory file system with per-user quotas and additional operat...
Design a bank system with scheduled transfers
Bank System (OOD): Accounts, Transfers, Scheduling, Top Spending, Merge Design an in-memory banking system that supports: - account creation - deposit...
Design an in-memory cloud file system
In-Memory Cloud File System (OOD) Design an in-memory cloud file system that supports files owned by users with storage quotas. Data model / rules - E...
Solve three array/string/graph coding tasks
This set of three coding tasks evaluates proficiency in fundamental data structures and algorithms, covering multi-way array merging, custom character...
Evaluate Notification-Based Account Ranking
This question evaluates a data scientist's competency in causal inference, A/B test and experiment design, metric definition and selection, statistica...
Extend a Maze Solver
This question evaluates proficiency in implementing and debugging graph search algorithms and state-space modeling, including correct visited-state ha...
Compute multi-account user distribution and unread pct
You are working on a product where a user can have multiple accounts, and each account can receive notifications. Tables Assume the following schemas:...