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Updated Mar 22, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took 4 weeks)
two phone interviews, BST print by level, String manipulation
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Dec 13, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 1 week)
I completed the coding challenge from Facebook on interviewstreet.com. Recruiter contacted me after 3 days to say I completed it successfully and whether I'd like to arrange a screening interview. Afterwards we scheduled an 45-min interview with engineer. There was another coding challenge there which I haven't completed successfully and I haven't gotten any feedback after interview.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Dec 11, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 4 weeks)
They had a HR person screened me. Asked a few things about why I want to work for FB, what improvements, and am I familiar with the engineering processes etc. There was a list of 6 to 8 questions.
When I asked if he read my work samples, he was totally bewildered.
The sad thing is he forgot to asked the last question on the list. Actually called me back to complete the interview.
Very young chap who sounded VERY INEXPERIENCED.
I kind of wished I spoke to the technical team instead.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Dec 14, 2011 — 0 of 3 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 2 weeks)
The recruiting team is extremely young and inexperienced, many have no idea how to leave the best impression of their company with the candidates. They don't understand they ARE the frontline representatives of the company
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted May 14, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 3 weeks)
The recruiter mailed me and wanted to know my interest in FB. He possibly found my email ID from a Programming Contest Site. It was a surprise mail because the same recruiter wanted to speak to me a year back, but never called despite scheduling times on three occasions. But this time he did call and set me up for a Phone Interview. I got passed two Phone interviews, as I was scheduled for a third one. Few days after the third, I get a thank you mail from them saying I don't have the right skill for the positions that's open now. Since I got the bad news after the third interview, I would mention that one in a bit more detail.
He called on time. He knew that I got passed two rounds and then for quite some time we discussed about the kind of things done in FB. He reminded me that he is in a very responsible position and is the right man to ask for in depth question about FB. His overall attitude was friendly. After the talking, he asked me two coding question and I had to code on Collabedit. The problem difficulties were easy, but after coding he asked me to improve on certain section of the code. There was also a requirement that the code must compile. Now, I was typing on an Web Based editor without any compile option and I am not sure if its considered a big skill to have the code compile on first type. From my part, I would say I did well if not excellent.
They mentioned they would consider me when posts open up. Not sure if this is how they mail out Reject mails, or they are considering my positive aspects of passing two phone rounds.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Jul 27, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took a day)
I was in a hurry and my answers where not optimal.
Interviewer was in a good mood and dedicated to finding out the depth of my knowledge.
Interview Questions
Do it efficiently: RAM CPU, CACHE.
Data structures with discution, clean algorithm, extensible if some relations are known.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineer at Facebook
Posted Jun 19, 2010 — 3 of 5 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took 3 days)
Watch out, this company flies you out and takes care of the hotel, but they don't mention ground transportation, and you get stuck with a pretty hefty bill if you don't know your way around.
As for the interview, they send a lot of mixed messages - the website states that you should dress business for the interview, but I was dissed by one of the staff for doing exactly that (I was overdressed!). In general, I found a lack of mature, objective questions and comments from some of the interview team, who were more interested if I fit in than whether I could do the job. It felt like I was back in high school and I was expected to be cool enough to be allowed into the "A" group.
The pay and benefits are good, and I'm sure it's a good place to work if you're good at being part of the "A" group. I think this company needs some maturity and consistency.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Mar 12, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 3 weeks)
Consisted of a phone interview with some basic algorithm questions and then on site interviews at the office. Interviews seemed to test basic algorithm skills, which while useful, didn't really apply much to the job. I was not asked any coding questions, and the interviewer seemed disorganised. I got the impression the first interviewer was busy and just wanted to get rid of me. He seemed to be picking questions at random. The second interviewer seemed bored and kept looking at his watch.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Feb 3, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
Two phone interviews that were pretty basic and standard. There were a lot of questions about how does Facebok work, experience using Facebook, etc. After a couple of weeks I went to Facebook's campus and had 3 in-person interviews. 2 of the 3 were technical interviews. Both of the technical interviews involved problem solving and drawing solutions on a whiteboard. The other interview was a business development type interview. That one involved a lot of questions about how I thought Facebook could improve, how could they monetize, etc. In all the questions were fair and the people I met with were very nice. It would have been an exciting opportunity, but unfortunately, it didn't work out.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Jan 7, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 (took a day)
I had two in person interviews. The campus was interesting, they just moved and their new place feels almost like a high school lunchroom taken over by computer-toting nerds.
The questions were just average. One dynamic programming question, and one divide and conquer algorithm, pretty standard if you're looking at companies in Sillicon valley. It seemed like they were looking for front end experience in addition to algorithms.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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