Interview Experiences

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MetaSoftware Engineer (AI/ML Infra)Senior+
Feb 2026

Clean Onsite, Then a No-Hire Amid Rumored Freeze

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MetaData Scientist
Feb 2026

SQL, Fake Accounts, and an AI Ad-Creation Case Study in the Onsite

I just finished my virtual onsite a little while back. I ran into a few questions that other people have already posted about, but with slightly different follow-ups, so I wanted to share. SQL: active_ads. The interviewer was very organized and gave clear instructions. My second question was to find people whose total spend last year was over 1k, then look at what share of their spend this year t…

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MetaSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Interviewing While Layoff News Broke, LC 215 and LC 236 With Follow-ups

I was in the middle of interviewing when the news broke about a big round of layoffs. Setting AI aside, the questions for the traditional software engineer track seem to be getting harder and harder. I got in through a referral from an alum, so the process into Meta went pretty smoothly. The pace was actually pretty fast — it took about two weeks to get through the first two rounds. The whole int…

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MetaData Scientist
Feb 2026

Old Forum Questions With the Details Changed

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MetaData Scientist
Feb 2026

SQL and Product Questions Both Built Around Ads Pixel

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MetaData Scientist
Feb 2026

Onsite Loop with SQL, Fake Accounts, and an AI Ad-Creation Metrics Question

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MetaMachine Learning Engineer
Feb 2026

Two Coding Rounds, Strong System Design, Rejected Anyway

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MetaSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

A New AI Project Round, Then a Maze Coding Fail

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MetaMachine Learning EngineerSenior+
Feb 2026

Full Onsite Recap, Then Layoffs Hit Right After

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MetaSoftware EngineerSenior+
Feb 2026

Good Feedback, Then Rejected by Hiring Committee

Meta Sr SDE. Phone Screen LC: Si Jiu Ba (coded/obscured problem name; the original title was not stated) LC: Yi Er Jiu (same — coded form) Onsite Coding (scheduled after 4/16, seems like both rounds were AI Coding by then) LC: San San Jiu (coded form) LC: Yao Liu Wu Ling (coded form) — only the parent was given, pretty abstract; I ended up working it out with the interviewer on the whiteboard AI-…

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MetaSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

An AI-Assisted Maze Solver Onsite

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MetaSoftware EngineerSenior+
Feb 2026

An AI Coding Round Built Around a Maze Problem

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MetaData Scientist
Feb 2026

A VO with an AI Ad Creation Case Study

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MetaSoftware EngineerNew Grad
Feb 2026

A Proctored OA Where 35 of 40 Questions Were About AI

VO on CodeSignal, camera on, screen shared. I had AI clean this up a bit — why has the polishing gotten so hard to use lately... it's not that it was hard, it's that the questions were long, with video explanations, so it took time just to understand them. New grad. HR reached out directly, and they want this filled very urgently — I need to get pushed to the final round within two weeks, and thi…

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MetaMachine Learning Engineer
Feb 2026

Even Claude Opus Can't One-Shot the AI Coding Round

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MetaMachine Learning Engineer
Jan 2026

Onsite Loop With ML System Design, BQ, and an AI-Enabled Coding Round

ML system design: One question was a common one — nearby place recommendation for mobile users who might be on the move. The other one I hadn't seen before — notification ranking. These notifications come from various products, like new product announcements, friends' new updates, and ads served by advertisers, and so on. BQ: Right off the bat they had me talk about my most proud project. Then th…

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MetaSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

A BQ Round That's All About Your Projects

This round was Meta's BQ (behavioral questions) round. Overall it felt more focused than Google's on digging into your personal ability through your own projects, and the questions flowed into each other pretty naturally. 1) Ambiguity The opening question was: "How do you deal with ambiguity?" I answered using a fairly complex project where the information was incomplete, and went into a lot of d…

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MetaMachine Learning EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

A Four-Round London E5 Onsite, Then a Wait for Headcount

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MetaData Scientist
Jan 2026

SQL and Product Questions Built Around Ads Pixel

I interviewed at Meta last Friday, and Monday evening I got an email from the recruiter saying I passed — coming back to report on this. Both the SQL and the product question were built around ads pixel, which I'd almost never seen in previous interview writeups before. There were two SQL questions total, both pretty simple. The first was a simple aggregation. The second asked about the relations…

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MetaSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

E5 Onsite With a Surprise AI-Assisted Round

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What are interview experiences?

An interview experience is a candidate's own account of a hiring loop — not a question bank entry. It tells you the shape of the process: how many rounds there were, what each round actually tested, how long the gaps between them ran, and what the recruiter said at the end. That context is the part a question list cannot give you.

How to read them

Weight recent write-ups more heavily — interview loops change, often within a year. Read several for the same company and role rather than one: a single account tells you what one interviewer asked, while five tell you what the bar is. Note the outcome badge too, since a rejection write-up usually explains the gap far more precisely than an offer one.

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