Technical Screen (PE Basics, PE Coding) -> Full Loop (SWE Coding, Behavioral, Systems (OS)). Coding rounds pretty straight forward, PE Basics and Systems require much studying since there's a lot of concepts they could ask and then go in depth about but doable. Process cut short due to hiring pause.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2025
Interview
There are 2 main rounds, you schedule the interviews together. The first is round is PE Basics & Coding. PE Basics is a conversation and coding is typical coderpad assessment. Then there's a leetcode round, Behavioral and Systems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was the typical "walk me through what happens when you go to a website" for PE Basics. Based on information online, I was expecting PE Coding to be a general coding interview to design a script to do something. Instead it was 2 leetcode questions and I had prepared the wrong material.
3 stages:
1) 30 question online quiz on general systems knowledge
2) Systems interview and coding interview (easy/medium)
- The systems interview question consisted of a) explain what happens you type in a URL into the browser and b) a general memory leak troubleshooting question
3) Systems interview and coding interview (hard)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the final stage interview, I was asked to give a thorough overview of how a Unix utility command such as `ls` works