Meta AI-enabled coding interview
Round 4 of 7 · 19 questions reported
- Length
- 60 min
- Format
- Several progressive tasks on a starter codebase in CoderPad with an AI assistant panel; usually two rounds
- They grade
- How you prompt, check and explain what the assistant writes
- AI use
- The first task usually without AI, later tasks with it
Questions Meta asks in this round 19
- Grid maze solver with keys, doors and bombs, AI-assistedSep 2026 · very often
- Choose words with no shared letters to cover the most lettersAug 2026 · often
- Implement an LRU cacheJan 2026 · once
- Best single location on a line to minimize total distance
- Bracket the first matching substring in each word
- Compress an n-ary tree by promoting children
- Count distinct values in every sliding window
- Fewest coins that cover every amount up to a limit
- Find bottleneck dependencies in a parallel build
- In-memory SQL table with filtering and multi-key sorting
- Longest palindrome from equal-length words
- Match words against a letter pattern
- Median of a large unsorted array in linear time
- Merge two sorted interval lists
- Minimum root-to-leaf path sum
- Multi-tap keypad: every string a press sequence can spell
- Remove parentheses from a plus/minus expression
- Shortest equal length for two boards covering every hole
- Split an array into two halves with equal sums
About the Meta AI-enabled coding round
What does Meta ask in the AI-enabled coding round?
The most asked: Grid maze solver with keys, doors and bombs, AI-assisted, Choose words with no shared letters to cover the most letters and Implement an LRU cache. 19 questions reported in all.
How long is the Meta AI-enabled coding round?
About 60 minutes.
What is the Meta AI-enabled coding round like?
Several progressive tasks on a starter codebase in CoderPad with an AI assistant panel; usually two rounds. They grade: How you prompt, check and explain what the assistant writes.
Can you use AI in the Meta AI-enabled coding round?
The first task usually without AI, later tasks with it.