2024 Meta Current State of Hiring
Meta has been hiring significantly in 2024. In fact, according to data from interviewing.io, a mock interview platform where candidates can practice for specific company interviews, the year-over-year increase of Meta interviews from January 2023 to January 2024 was 10X!
If you look at the chart above showing hiring volume of different FAANG companies, you’ll notice Meta has ramped up hiring in 2024, hiring significantly more engineers than other companies, and even holds a monopoly on engineering hiring. This uptick in hiring corresponds to Meta’s strong 2023 economic performance and a jump in stock price from 2023 to 2024. With stock prices at all time highs, Meta is in a strong financial position to increase hiring. In this blog, I will explain how this current state of hiring affects interview candidates.
In September 2024, I finished and passed the Meta interview process for an IC4 software engineer. I was a recent candidate, and throughout my unique hiring process that lasted 9 months from January 2024 to September 2024, I have seen 2 waves of hiring at Meta. Although I am joining the company very soon, I will not pretend to have all the insider information on Meta’s hiring practices…
