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Updated Feb 9, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineering New Grad at Facebook
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 3 weeks)
Initially contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. After this contact I had an introductory phone interview followed by another phone interview with some basic technical questions (what does final in front of a class mean etc). Then I was set a 90 minute programming test on interviewstreet. Upon passing the test I had a 45 minute phone interview with coding on collabedit.
The recruiter was very helpful but the final interviewer did not speak very good english and despite being told I would be contacted via telephone, I was emailed 10 minutes after the interview was supposed to start requesting a skype address for the call.
Unfortunately I struggled to remember how to implement the Indian Power algorithm for the interview question so was rejected a few days after.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Data Scientist at Facebook
Posted Dec 18, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 weeks)
I have a PhD in computational neuroscience / psychology. The Data Scientist position looked perfect for me because of my interest fitting models to large datasets describing human behavior. The HR person was nice. The interviewer was someone from the data science team-- nice and very young. He had me go up to the white board and write C++ code to answer a few questions. As a PhD, I was expecting research type questions, not coding. So I got a bit nervous. I didn't fully understand all of his questions and he helped me. I left feeling kind of annoyed. It probably wasn't the right job for me because I am not a software engineer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Business Analyst at Facebook
Posted Dec 13, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Austin, TX (took 5 weeks)
The first interview was the basic HR background information, talk about your resume, etc. The main purpose is to screen you and make sure that you are a "fit" with the entrepreneurial and results focused company. The HR rep was very nice and responsive and made me feel comfortable. I was able to get to the second stage of the phone interview with the hiring manager. He was not as easy to read and it was a pretty difficult interview. They wanted somebody with more programming skills then I had. The questions were the toughest part.
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The interview consisted of a Phone 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 14, 2011 — 0 of 1 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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Software Engineering New Grad at Facebook
Posted Dec 2, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 in Palo Alto, CA (took 4 weeks)
A friend who's an engineer there passed my resume along. Had two phone interviews which I found quite difficult. They both had me code in collabedit.org, and the second also actually ran my code on codepad.org - that was a surprise! I did not do perfectly on the phone interview questions, but still got through.
They brought me on-site for an interview day which included a tour, lunch, a talk, and four 1:1 interviews. One-half of the first interview included some questions about leadership, teamwork etc., and the rest were all technical. One of the interviewers seemed to be in a grumpy mood, but that's the luck of the draw. The whiteboard coding questions were not too bad and I think I got them all, though with some silly mistakes along the way. I'd agree with the previous reviewer who said their questions are not as difficult as Google's- though perhaps they therefore have higher expectations as to how quickly/flawlessly you solve them.
On my way out they gave me a goodie bag with some swag. Oh, and at one point I saw Zuckerberg milling about. Got an email a week or so later- I would not be winning the Facebook IPO lottery!
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I got the interview through a College or University.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Dec 11, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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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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User Operations Analyst at Facebook
Posted Dec 7, 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 Apr 2011 in Austin, TX (took 2+ weeks)
There were many steps to their interview process: interview at the university career services, an easy written test, and two on-site interviews. Be prepared for all types of behavioral questions and random ones that just test how you think (ie. if you could be any animal what would you be). In the end, it just wasn't a good fit. I liked half of the people I met, and disliked the other half.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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User Operations Analyst at Facebook
Posted Dec 5, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 (took 1+ week)
I applied to Facebook and as part of the application I had to answer a potential user problem regarding a friend purchasing credits through a game application on Facebook. Afterwards, I made it to the second round and was invited to get to know the people who work at facebook socially at a bar/restaurant cocktail hour.
The next morning the formal interview took place.
I did make it to the next round of interviews.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Client Support at Facebook
Posted Dec 4, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 (took 2 days)
They took us (the students interviewing) out for drinks the night before. They gave us all good advice. Interviewed the next morning, told the next week that I was not getting an offer.
I followed up to ask in what way I could improve, was told that I sounded like my answers were "too prepared", whatever that means.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.
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