Officially confirmed
What Meta says about its process
- 1Meta describes the software engineering full loop as several conversations designed to assess technical skills and help both the candidate and hiring team evaluate fit.
- 2The company provides a dedicated full-loop preparation guide created by Meta engineers and recruiters for invited software engineering candidates.
- 3The exact mix of conversations depends on role and level; candidates should follow the current preparation material and scheduling details supplied for their loop.
- 4Strong preparation combines coding fluency, scalable product and system reasoning, concise communication, and concrete examples of impact and collaboration.
Official sources
Last verified 2026-08-03. We update the page when official hiring information materially changes.
Role coverage
Roles this guide supports
Practice focus
Signals to rehearse
- Fast, correct coding
- Product system design
- Scale and reliability
- Behavioral impact stories
- Driving technical trade-offs
Independent company-style practice
AI engineering scenarios relevant to Meta
These are original EngMock exercises based on public engineering themes. They are not represented as official or leaked Meta interview questions.
Design Instagram Feed
Design a photo-sharing social network news feed with complex ranking.
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Design a system to detect and prevent political advertisements from unauthorized foreign actors from appearing on a social media platform.
View scenario →Design Anonymous Group Messaging
Design a group messaging application where each member has a different masked identity in every group.
View scenario →Design a Notification System
Design a scalable notification service that sends emails, SMS, and push notifications to millions of users.
View scenario →Design a Social Networking Platform
Design a social networking domain model covering users and profiles, friendship requests and symmetric friendships, and posts with a visibility policy, comments, and reactions — enforcing symmetric friendship, unique requests, author ownership, and visibility-based read authorization.
View scenario →Find the Breaking Floor with Two Bulbs
Given two identical bulbs and a building with F floors, find the minimum critical floor at which a bulb breaks when dropped, while minimising the worst-case number of drops.
View scenario →Practice the underlying interview skills
Combine a live technical mock with the candidate-reported Question Bank, then use the evidence-based report to choose your next focused scenario.