1. Recruiter Screen (30 min)
• Introductory chat to understand your background and career interests.
• They’ll explain the process and ask about your availability.
• Sometimes a light behavioral question or coding warm-up.
2. Technical Phone Screen (1 or 2 rounds, 45 min each)
• DSA-focused coding questions on a shared editor (like CoderPad).
• Think LeetCode Medium/Hard — expect 1-2 questions per round.
• Interviewers look for: problem-solving, communication, and clean coding.
3. Onsite / Virtual Onsite (typically 4 rounds)
Usually consists of:
• 2 Coding Interviews
• More DSA problems (trees, graphs, dynamic programming, etc.)
• Think-aloud and communicate trade-offs
• 1 System Design (for mid-senior level)
• Design a scalable system (e.g., news feed, messaging, file storage)
• Focus on API design, data modeling, scalability, trade-offs
• 1 Behavioral (“Execution” or “Leadership & Drive”)
• Meta uses structured behavioral interviews tied to values like:
• Move fast
• Focus on long-term impact
• Be bold
• STAR format is common (Situation, Task, Action, Result)