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Updated 30 Dec 2024

Meta Senior Software Engineer Interview Experiences

4 interviews found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed in Nov 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic questions on background
  • Q2. Why do you want to join meta
Round 2 - Coding Test 

DSA Round - Graphs & Trees

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. System Design - delved a lot deeper
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Job Portal

Round 1 - Coding Test 

DSA:
Dynamic programming;
More focus on approach and readability.
Ephasis on dry run and test cases

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Try to build the solution as if it is a problem of your day to day job

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
More than 8 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in May 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Graph related question from leetcode medium
  • Q2. 2 pointers question from leetcode medium
Round 2 - Coding Test 

This was a panel interview with 2 DSA questions, 1 hiring manager round and 1 system design

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Aug 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

5 mins introduction, 10 mins project behavioural, 2 Coding Questions - 20 mins each, 5 mins to ask questions

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Write code based on situation with proper implementation using Design patterns etc.
  • Ans. 

    Implement a code scenario using design patterns

    • Identify the problem statement and requirements

    • Choose appropriate design patterns like Singleton, Factory, Observer, etc.

    • Implement the code following the selected design patterns

    • Test the code for functionality and efficiency

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Coding question in which you need to write optimize program.
Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Linked list Coding questions
  • Q2. Design a database scheme of one of the known website.
  • Ans. 

    Design a database scheme for Amazon website

    • Create tables for users, products, orders, reviews, and payments

    • Use primary and foreign keys to establish relationships between tables

    • Include attributes such as user_id, product_id, order_id, review_id, and payment_id

    • Implement indexes for faster data retrieval

    • Consider denormalization for performance optimization

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare Coding questions and some design questions. I got the offer within few days.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. The first round was based on general aptitude questions and technical questions based in my skill set.
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interview questions were based on dsa and array based questions to be specific. Questions based on string manipulation and other Java related basic to intermediate technical questions.
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interview was based on some project related discussion and intermediate level of array based dsa questions. The other questions were related to Spring, Spring boot framework amd other Java related intervie...
Round 1 - Coding Test 

They will give you a leet code test.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Technical round with a few coding questions. API to get the employee.
  • Q2. API to update the salary of the employee
  • Ans. 

    API endpoint to update employee salary

    • Create a PUT request endpoint with employee ID and new salary as parameters

    • Verify user authentication and authorization before updating the salary

    • Update the salary in the database and return success message

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Interviews take too long and repetitive questions on multiple rounds
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Aug 2023. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Mixed conceptual questions from java8, Spring Boot and SQL and microservices

Round 3 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. One round technical question and coding on Java, Java 8, Spring boot,Rest webservices, SQL. Code for rest API using jpa for CRUD.
  • Q2. Singleton pattern for thread safety .
  • Ans. 

    Singleton pattern ensures only one instance of a class is created and provides a global point of access to it.

    • Use lazy initialization to create the instance only when needed.

    • Use synchronized keyword to make the getInstance() method thread-safe.

    • Consider using double-checked locking for better performance.

    • Use enum to implement singleton pattern as it is inherently thread-safe.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Linked list implementation
  • Ans. 

    Linked list is a data structure where each element points to the next element in the sequence.

    • Nodes contain data and a reference to the next node

    • Insertion and deletion can be done efficiently in a linked list

    • Traversal starts from the head node and follows the next pointers

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Parenthesis balancing question
  • Q2. Caching in Hibernate
  • Ans. 

    Caching in Hibernate improves performance by storing frequently accessed data in memory.

    • Hibernate supports first-level cache at session level

    • Second-level cache can be configured at session factory level

    • Caching strategies include read-only, read-write, and transactional

    • Cache providers like Ehcache, Infinispan, and Hazelcast can be used

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Maven scope questions
  • Q4. Ci and CD concept
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary negotiation

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Good coding and conceptual questions

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Apr 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How many type of authentication can be implemented
  • Ans. 

    There are multiple types of authentication that can be implemented, including password-based, token-based, biometric, and multi-factor authentication.

    • Password-based authentication: Users authenticate themselves using a password.

    • Token-based authentication: Users authenticate themselves using a token, such as a one-time password or a security key.

    • Biometric authentication: Users authenticate themselves using their unique ...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Develop springboot api for a given table
  • Ans. 

    Develop a Spring Boot API for a given table

    • Create a Spring Boot project with necessary dependencies

    • Define entity class representing the table

    • Create a repository interface extending JpaRepository

    • Implement service layer with business logic

    • Create REST controller with CRUD operations

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Good interview, analyzed technical and problem solving

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I appeared for an interview in Apr 2023.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

A set of logical as well as technical mcqs were asked

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical one on one round with an experienced professional
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This was an in-depth technical round where in depth technical know how about the coding language were asked
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic discussion about the company and its features

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Professionally handled the interview process by the company

Meta Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Meta Senior Software Engineer interview?
Meta interview process usually has 1-2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Meta interview process are Coding Test, HR and Technical.
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