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MetaSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026

I had been out of work for a year and a half. Once I got properly serious about the search, I fired off about 100 applications and basically got silence. A few startups got in touch, but nothing picked up speed. Then someone referred me at Meta and a recruiter asked to set up a call. One choice early on, I believe, defined everything that followed. I turned the startup conversations down and comm…

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