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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Since this is a new grad role, facebook is interviewing a lot of people at the same time. Instead of engaging in a conversation, the interviewer only cared about the "THE RIGHT ANSWER" in mind which is a canned answer facebook provided in advance and refused to discuss any other methods, which doesn't make sense for such an open-ended question. I get that predefined questions + predefined answers help speed up recruiting at such scale, however, only repeating the questions without evaluating candidates on their thinking process and refusing the discuss /explore any other potential methods is disappointing. I doubt that facebook can select the best talents in this way.
Process:
First recruiter call, asked about background and 4 easy sql questions (join,ordering syntax etc)
Next first round consisting a 20 minute product question and 20 min coding question.
The coding question is very easy and can be done in either sql or python (or R ). The product part is where I am most disappointed about the interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
product question: how would you detect if there is a conversation under a post?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2018
Interview
I got contacted by the recruiter 3 days after referral and arranged phone screening. The recruiter called me several minutes after our scheduled time and mainly went over my resume and asked about some basic SQL concepts
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you use ORDER BY, what is the default sequence of your result?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
First, there was a written interview. Then, there was a 15 minutes phone call with a recruitor. After a week or two, I had two 45 minutes interview with team managers.