Meta IC4 E4 Interview Experience – Offer (2025)
Virtual OnsiteHard✓ Offer7 rounds
Interview Rounds
Phone ScreenCoding45 min
Medium-difficulty coding round on a shared doc. No code execution environment.
Phone ScreenCoding45 min
Second coding phone screen, similar format and difficulty.
Virtual OnsiteCoding35 min
2 medium-hard problems. Must solve both optimally within 35 minutes. No IDE — shared doc only. Speed and correctness simultaneously required.
Virtual OnsiteCoding35 min
2 more medium-hard problems in 35 minutes. Most intense coding format encountered across FAANG — requires being fast, correct, and articulate at the same time.
Virtual OnsiteCoding35 min
Third coding round — same format, 2 problems.
Virtual OnsiteSystem Design45 min
System design round — went well.
Virtual OnsiteBehavioral45 min
Behavioral round — Meta values alignment, cross-functional work.
Questions Asked
- •Medium-hard LC problems across graph traversal, trees, and arrays (2 per coding round)
- •System design: distributed social graph feature
- •Behavioral: cross-functional collaboration, navigating competing priorities
Preparation Tips
- •Meta's coding format is uniquely intense — 2 problems per 35-min round, no IDE
- •PhD-track E4 bar: interviewers want rigorous reasoning over speed, but you still must hit timing
- •Practice solving 2 medium LC problems back-to-back in under 35 minutes without execution environment
- •Onsite scheduled ~10 days after passing both phone screens
- •Offer came ~2 weeks post-onsite; team matching is pre-offer at Meta