Meta·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen
Apr 2026
Meta coding screen, looked like a pretty focused algorithms round. One question on binary search over a sorted array, nothing crazy, but they pushed on the reasoning behind approach choices.
- Given a sorted array of integers and a query range [a, b], return all values in the array that fall within that range (inclusive). What's your approach and complexity?
“Went with bisect_left and bisect_right to find the bounds, then just sliced the array.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Meta, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.
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