CrackingWalnuts
Very high. The largest IC hiring out of Menlo Park, NYC, London, and Bellevue. Both product and infra. Hires a lot of contractors-to-FTE through partner agencies too.
Cash, RSUs vesting roughly evenly across 4 years, signing bonus. Strong refresh policy. Level is set after the loop by the hiring committee, not the recruiter. Check levels.fyi for current ranges.
> **How current is this?** Checked 3 August 2026. Meta publishes its overall timeline and broad stages. Everything else here is what candidates consistently report, not something the company publishes. Loops change without announcement, so treat this as a guide rather than a specification.
Meta puts its own hiring process at about two to three months end to end.
The onsite itself is a single compact day, which is where the "fast loop" reputation comes from. The scheduling and committee steps around it are not fast.
Each round has a codename: Ninja for coding, Pirate for design, Jedi for behavioral.
The Ninja round is the part most people miss. Two problems in 35 minutes is not the same bar as two problems in 45 minutes.
The pace is the signal. If you spend ten minutes clarifying before coding, you will not finish.
Jedi has gotten more serious. Recent candidates describe it as a calibrated round with a rubric that maps to five behavioral signals, where a weak Jedi can drop your level by itself.
Stories that sound coached lose points fast. Real stories with messy outcomes beat clean stories with no specifics.