What is this unrealistic bar for these technical screens?? Is everybody cheating?
Interview Experience
I’ve been interviewing (8 yoe) with Meta, Uber, Netflix, and Snowflake and have failed literally every technical phone screen. And a few ai startups I
passed DoorDash but then they said that head coun
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I’ve been interviewing (8 yoe) with Meta, Uber, Netflix, and Snowflake and have failed literally every technical phone screen. And a few ai startups I
passed DoorDash but then they said that head count has been filled. I thought I crushed Cursor but still haven’t heard back I am getting to the answer in the allotted time, I communicate openly, I am a great engineer and have been promoted twice, and yet I still keep failing. I’ve done 62 leetcodes for practice so far. But it’s not enough. Been grinding to prep for 5 weeks while having a full time job. How can I figure out what the bar really is? Am I just participating in a humiliation ritual and I’m competing with people solving the optimal solution in 15 minutes because everyone is cheating with AI? Or do I need to double my practice? Idk man. It’s hard
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This is a candidate experience report from a meta interview for a swe role during the phone screen round reported in 2026.
It covers the following topics: General Experience .
Difficulty rating: Hard