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FAANG / Big Tech

Most of these Meta write-ups come from Software Engineers (1,194), then Data Scientists (489) and Product Managers (453). The most reported rounds are the technical phone screen (1,190), the product sense round (466), the system design round (255) and the behavioral / leadership round (205).

2377 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

Meta·Product Manager·Hiring Manager Screen

Apr 2026
Interviewed at Meta, came away with one question that seemed deceptively simple but made me realize I hadn't thought about expectation-setting as rigorously as I should have.
  • How do you set expectations on a project?

“I fumbled this a bit.”

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Meta·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Apr 2026
Meta SWE coding round, one question on string manipulation. Pretty standard stuff but the edge cases are where they get you.
  • Given a string, determine whether it can become a palindrome by removing at most one character.

“Looks easy until you start coding it up.”

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Meta·Data Analyst·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Apr 2026
Interviewed at Meta, got asked the classic incomplete data behavioral. Not much else to report, pretty short exchange.
  • Describe a situation where you had to make decisions or draw conclusions with incomplete or missing data.

“I rambled a bit.”

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Meta·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Apr 2026
Meta SWE coding round, pretty much what you'd expect. One question, classic problem, nothing fancy.
  • Given an array of integers, find two numbers that add up to a target sum.

“Bread and butter problem.”

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Meta·Product Manager·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Apr 2026
Meta behavioral round, one question about navigating ambiguity. Pretty standard stuff but it's the kind of question that sounds easy until you're actually in it trying to remember a project that doesn't make you sound clueless.
  • Tell me about a project where the requirements or direction were unclear. How did you figure out what the actual goal was, break the problem down, and keep things moving?

“This is one of those questions where everyone has a story but most stories are bad.”

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Meta·Technical Program Manager·Onsite - System Design / Architecture

Apr 2026
Meta TPM interview with a system design question around fake news detection. Pretty open-ended, which I wasn't fully prepared for.
  • How would you design a fake news detection system?

“I started with the data pipeline and content ingestion layer, which felt right, but then I got lost trying to define what 'fake' actually means at scale.”

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Meta·Product Manager·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Apr 2026
PM interview at Meta with a behavioral question about project failure. Pretty standard stuff but still worth thinking through if you haven't prepped a good story.
  • Tell me about a time one of your projects failed.

“I had a story ready but I think I leaned too hard into what went wrong and not enough on what I actually did about it.”

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Meta·Product Manager·Hiring Manager Screen

Apr 2026
Meta PM interview, one question about diagnosing a metric drop on Instagram Stories. Short and focused, felt more like a screen than a full loop.
  • You're the PM for Instagram Stories and creation is down 5%. How do you diagnose what's going wrong?

“I went straight to segmentation and probably moved too fast.”

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Meta·Software Engineer·Onsite - Coding / Algorithms

Apr 2026
Meta coding round for a software engineer role, focused entirely on a maze problem with a bunch of follow-ups. Nothing crazy on the surface but the variants kept coming and I felt like I was barely keeping up by the end.
  • You're given a maze problem with broken test cases. Find and fix the bugs so the tests pass.
  • Why does running BFS on a maze without a visited set lead to infinite loops?
  • Modify the maze traversal so movement is restricted to only left and right directions. How does this change the solution?
  • Extend the maze problem to handle a doors-and-keys variant, where certain paths require collecting a key before passing through a door.

“Starting with broken tests instead of a blank slate threw me off more than I expected.”

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Meta·Product Manager·Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy

Apr 2026
Meta PM interview, one question about designing search for Instagram. Pretty open-ended and I wasn't totally sure how deep to go on the technical side versus the product side.
  • How would you design a search engine for Instagram?

“I went straight into user types and search intent which felt right at the time, but I think I underweighted the ranking and relevance side of things.”

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