I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2026
No offer
Negative experience
Difficult interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
Good process cool people everything except the final interview where they seem disinterested and it was obvious by their questions. I was going to get a rejection, but they kind of just dragged it out. Kind of seemed contemptuous.
Filtering steps:
1. Automated coding questions via Coderpad
2. Freestyle coding interview
Full loop interview:
1. System design interview with Excalidraw
2. Behavior interview via zoom
3. Freestyle Coding interview
4. Coding with AI via Coderpad
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Freestyle coding:
Find lowest common ancestor of 2 nodes in a binary tree
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2026
Interview
Online Application to Virtual phone screen. Phone screen included two leetcode style questions (random pick index, log parsing question). Finished describing my approaches however they were not optimal. s s
Initial phone screen with recruiter who reached out via Linkedin. Asked reasonable questions about skills and interests related to the role - specifically around infrastructure IAAC, SQL pipelines and real time data.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How much of your time do you spend doing SQL vs Python?
