Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2018
Interview
Applied through a recruiter that reached out and set up an initial phone screen. After the phone interview I was told that someone would be reaching out in the next 2-3 weeks to schedule a 2nd interview that would be via video conference. 3 weeks later I received a call from a Data Scientist who expected an interview to take place, which unfortunately I had not been notified of. I apologized to the Data Scientist and explained the mix up. After reaching back out to my recruiter I immediately received an email apology from their HR coordinator who had forgotten to notify me of the interview.
I rescheduled the interview for the following week. The hour long interview was split into two parts, technical and case study. The technical interview included pretty simple questions over SQL queries and how I would pull data needed for analysis. The case study revolved around taking a current Facebook feature and determining which KPIs would provide insight on the effectiveness of enhancements. Overall I felt the interview went fairly well and was told that I would hear back within a week or two on if they would be scheduling an in person interview.
I never heard back from Facebook after my 2nd interview, even after following up with my recruiter after a month had gone by without any news. Overall the process felt very disorganized and seemed very unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you measure the success of Facebook Groups as a whole? How would you measure the effectiveness of a new feature added to Facebook Groups?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2018
Interview
Recruiter approached me on linkedin with an invitation to chat to learn about the Data Scientist roles in Facebook Community Operations team. Recruiter was detailed and very patient in explaining how data science at facebook is constantly striving for community integrity by developing strategies to prevent fake news, hate news, spam posts and other malicious activities that are effecting 2.2 billion users positive experience on facebook. Later on, recruiter considered me for a technical phone screen with the one of the employees at facebook. It consisted of Analytical and Technical portions with focus on SQL, Statistics, Machine learning concepts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
As a data scientist, How would you test new features being implemented on facebook page?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2018
Interview
The interview experience was overall pretty good, FB recruiters are very responsive and professional. The process includes 1 HR screening, 1 technical video/phone interview, 4 back to back onsite interview in one day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL questions, product related questions and probability questions