Meta Senior Software Developer interview questions
based on 271 ratings - Updated Jun 14, 2026
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Senior Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Developer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 43 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Senior Software Developer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 67%
Skills test: 33%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Very nice people. Scheduling the interview and actual interview was straight forward.
Unlike some of the other commenters, I didn't find them to be arrogant or frustrating to talk too.
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Question 1
Not really difficult, but I just suffered from a brain freeze.
There was a question about traversing a tree and another about iterating a nested container.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in Dec 2010
Interview
I received a phone call a few days after applying for a position online. After a brief screening of my skills, the recruiter set up a phase-1 interview with a single Engineer. She gave me the option of doing it over the phone or at the Facebook headquarters. I chose the latter because I live nearby. I was scheduled for a 45 minute interview. The engineer was very friendly and inquisitive about my past projects. This is the easy part, talking about myself. He didn't have a copy of my resume, which I thought was lame. Anyway, after discussing my more recent projects, we moved on to the whiteboard coding part of the interview. This part was a pleasant surprise. It was done in a collaborative way, where I would discuss my solution, psudo-code, then code, and receive suggestions or other form of input from the engineer. The last 15 minutes were spent discussing the culture at Facebook and specifics about the team I was interviewing for. It took them more than a week to get back to me, which I would like to think was because they wanted to complete interviews for the other candidates.