Asked to code in phone screen. Given two sorted arrays, do intersection or arrays in most efficient manner. I implemented it in using just one while loop, but missed to check NULL condition on the second array and got rejected! :(

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in Menlo Park, CA (took a day)

I was contacted by a recruiter, and scheduled an interview. I wasn't sure about it but it seemed foolish not even to talk to Facebook. Invited to the new Menlo Park campus for two in-person interview with two different PMs.

One interview focused on improvements and product ideas for Facebook. The interviewers were both very pleasant to talk to, and pushed every idea I'd come up with further, asking questions like "What are the potential drawbacks of that?" or "How would you integrate that with X other feature on Facebook?"

The other focused on logic and estimation problems, seeing if I could come up with a reasonable method for estimating impossible-to-nail values. This was pretty fun, actually, and I think went pretty well.

In the end, I received an email rejection after following up a few days later with a vague statement about how I could have had better vision -- reading between the lines, I hadn't done my homework in advance on the current cutting-edge developments at Facebook.

Still a very positive experience, and the two PMs I talked to were genuine, friendly, and enthusiastic about the process and any questions I had.

Interview Questions

What would you change about Facebook if you started tomorrow?

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Menlo Park, CA (took 4+ weeks)

3 online questions - easy
phone interview - easy
another phone interview -easy
on site interview - met 4 people in 2 hours - easy to hard....

it's fun after all.

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why you want to work for facebook.

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tell me how this relate to ur current/previous work experience

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Singapore (Singapore) (took 2 days)

First, an HR person called me for an interview. It was standard HR questions such as
1) why are you applying for this position?
2)why do you want to leave your job?
3) Why Facebook?
4) describe your experiences
5) What is your weakness?
6) What is your Strength?

Then I passed onto a Communications person in HQ. Her questions were also standard but specific on Facebook products.
1) Why are you suitable for this position?
2) What issues do you think Facebook will face in the near future?
3) How would you deal with the issues?
4) Compared to competitors (name them) - what are Facebook's weaknesses and strengths?

The Comms person in HQ would often sound non commital and un interested. I had a feeling the entire time that she had "right answers" she was looking for and I wasn't giving it.

She also has no experience in Asia - so I'm not sure she fully understood the Asian market to be interviewing a person for this position. I wish it had been someone based here who interviewed me.

There you have it. I didn't hear back from them at all.

Make sure to read up on latest FB issues, products, troubles, etc. Good luck.

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What challenges do you think Facebook is facing right now?

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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 3 days)

1 day phone interview, 2 days on-site
prepared ideas/sketches for new product ideas
some interviewers were open/willing to listen to background & ideas, while others seemed disinterested and had their own point of view to push
background or experience is NOT valued
reviewed, in-depth current product offering and suggested improvements, but it never came off as valuable to them, just whether or not it fit with the Facebook stance

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What would you fix with X Product?

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Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 5 days)

20 minute HR screener asking basic questions of Java features (Put Java as a dominant language)

60 minute follow-up interview with Engineer asking questions about data structures and used a system where we could share writing code together. Wrote code to find the maximum subsequence sum over the phone and struggled through an example. Also did another couple problems. Was rather nervous and talked very little about my other non-coding experiences.

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Largest subsequence sum

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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 3 weeks)

A recruiter contacted me and asked to schedule the first of three possible interviews. The recruiter I dealt with was rather rude and not very friendly. The first interview consisted of two questions.Two weeks later, the recruiter contacted me via email to tell me I would not be offered a position.

Interview Questions

Insert a node in a singly linked circular list given any node in the list.

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Print out a binary tree level by level. (Denote the end of each level.)

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 4+ weeks)

The recruiter asked me if I would like to do a phone screen or go to the Facebook office and have a face to face interview. I chose the latter. I went there on time. They had asked me to bring the signed copy of the NDA which I did. I spoke to the recruiting coordinator and the interview with the engineer lasted about 45 minutes. The interviewer had another interviewer shadow him but only the main interviewer interacted with me.

Interview Questions

Given a matrix of numbers in which some may be zero. If a cell contains a zero, set all the cells in the corresponding column and row to zero.

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You are given a set of numbers 0 - n. Given a k, print all subsets of size k. Give the time complexity of the algorithm.

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 in Menlo Park, CA (took 4 weeks)

A friend referred me, and I had to take up their online programming test. They readily scheduled a phone interview, which went well and within an hour I received a mail asking for time to schedule the second. The second one also went well, and they offered me the job after 3-4 days.

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Questions on the Look-and-Say sequence. Google it.

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Two other questions were similar to the ones posted by others who underwent FB interviews. So not repeating them.

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2.0

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)

Recruiter sent email and invited me to the interview on campus. 1:1 interview in 30 min. First, the interviewer introduces himself, and my self-introduction. What am I interested in Facebook. Then write the code on the whiteboard. Step by step. Then he asked me if I have any question for their company.