I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
I interviewed for new grad role, I applied the role -> Recruiter Screen -> Technical Screen 1st round Basic PE int this round I was asked about System Design therotically 2nd round Coding PE 2 questions 1st one is DSA(Valid Abbrevation) 2nd one is File Handling Dinosour leg length and speed problem, I could not solve file handling question and got rejected.
I had two screening rounds and 3 interview loop rounds, Meta leetcode questions, systems design can be extensive. Questions can be repeated so look out for all the available questions online. Systems debugging is a very important topic
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Meta?
What are different internet web protocols
talk about internet.
Recuriter round then technical screen with an engineer that then final stage which is four rounds, 2 coding 1 system design and one behavioural, for Production Engineer the questions are often a mix of LC questions and practical file system operations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reading input from file
BFS/DFS Basic Graph problems
There are 2 rounds, first has PE basics and coding, second has PE basics, coding and Behavioral. Learn linux, OS, Networking in detail. They dig deep into whatever u say. Coding is usually easy, prepare file parsing questions
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