Meta Platforms, Inc. is the American technology company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its revenue comes overwhelmingly from digital advertising across those apps, and it also builds virtual and augmented reality hardware through Reality Labs. Meta has engineering and sales operations in India.
Indicative process.The company does not publish its hiring process, so the steps below are compiled from publicly reported candidate experiences and placement sources. Rounds vary by role, experience level, campus and year – treat this as a guide, not a guarantee, and confirm current details with the company.
Meta’s engineering hiring runs as a recruiter screen, a technical screen, and then an onsite “loop”.
Recruiter screen – Background, role and level alignment.
Technical screen – A 45-minute live coding interview, commonly two medium-difficulty data-structures and algorithms problems.
Onsite loop – For E5 and below, candidates commonly report four rounds: two coding, one system or product design, and one behavioural (“Career Story”). Design carries more weight at senior levels.
From late 2025 Meta began rolling out an AI-assisted coding interview that replaces one of the two traditional coding rounds. Machine-learning roles substitute an ML system design round. Meta assigns level after the loop, so performance affects the offer level as well as the outcome.
(ESTIMATE, not a company-published figure — typical market range ₹6 L – ₹12 L/yr for this role in this sector (mid-size employer). Actual pay varies widely by location, skills and individual negotiation)
Technical Lead
Experience: 6 - 10 years yrs
₹ 27.5 Lakhs/year
(ESTIMATE, not a company-published figure — typical market range ₹20 L – ₹35 L/yr for this role in this sector (mid-size employer). Actual pay varies widely by location, skills and individual negotiation)
Senior Software Engineer
Experience: 3 - 6 years yrs
₹ 17 Lakhs/year
(ESTIMATE, not a company-published figure — typical market range ₹12 L – ₹22 L/yr for this role in this sector (mid-size employer). Actual pay varies widely by location, skills and individual negotiation)
Software Engineer
Experience: 0 - 2 years yrs
₹ 6.8 Lakhs/year
(ESTIMATE, not a company-published figure — typical market range ₹4.5 L – ₹9 L/yr for this role in this sector (mid-size employer). Actual pay varies widely by location, skills and individual negotiation)