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Updated May 26, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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User Operations Analyst at Facebook
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Austin, TX (took 3 weeks)
Very helpful in making sure I got through the interview process in the amount of time I needed. The final round was very detail oriented, and they are focused on making sure that you are love Facebook and User Operations. Make sure you have experience with all of their user operation tools on the website such as help center, etc.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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User Operations Analyst at Facebook
Posted Mar 19, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 2 days)
After the first phone interview with HR, I got invited for onsite interviews with 4 different employees. There was the manager of the team, 2 seniors from different teams as well as a senior team member. Really nice people and nice chats, they make you feel very welcome and comfortable. The questions were not mean, just very open and apparently, I should have brought more examples from previous work/life situations in order to prove my points.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Facebook
Posted Mar 26, 2012 — 0 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Menlo Park, CA (took 2 weeks)
Facebook recruiter contacted me via twitter and LinkedIn and asked if I was interested in a career opportunity in Facebook. After that the recruiter scheduled an HR interview with himself via Skype. This was just a standard HR interview. The recruiter was very friendly. The whole call was very relaxed.
After that he decided to schedule a phone screen with an engineer from California. This consisted of just a few HR questions eg. "What would you change in Facebook?". After that he gave an assignment on collabedit.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Online Sales Operations at Facebook
Posted Mar 13, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jul 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 2 weeks)
Interview experience was good. I felt as though i had the job when I left, but I guess I was wrong. They were interviewing several people on the same day. I could hear conversations in other rooms which made me feel uncomfortable during the in person interview. I found it distracting.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Risk at Facebook
Posted Mar 16, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 in Menlo Park, CA (took 1 week)
I was first contacted by a recruiter for a phone screening. She was very nice and informative. At the end of the interview she told me what I should expect and learn about before my next interview with someone on the team. I got asked basic HR questions like "Why Facebook?" "Why this job?" and one specific ? "How can you benefit from fraudulent facebook credits?" (didn't have a great answer, but she explained it afterwards) Thought it went great.
My next interview didn't go as well. Which wasn't really the interviewer's fault, I just got really nervous and didn't really know what to expect as this was my first real interview, ever. I'd spent so much time learning everything I could about the company, the industry and the work I hadn't thought about questions she might ask about myself, which was what most of the interview was. She asked me why I hadn't pursued something closer to my major. She asked about a time I'd had a disagreement on a team and how I'd handled it. She asked only one question specific to the work at the very end, asking me to get in the mind of a fraudster. Don't get too chatty, because it seemed a little awkward when I tried. And have prepared, general questions for the end if you are totally new/knowledgeable about the work. The questions I asked about her work she seemed confused by.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Facebook
Posted Mar 11, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Feb 2012 (took a day)
ask about genearal question of Binary search tree.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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User Operations Analyst at Facebook
Posted Mar 12, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Austin, TX (took 3 months)
The only reason the entire process took 3 months was because I was abroad at the time I started communicating with FB about the role. They were prompt throughout the whole process. I received a call about a week after submitting my resume (via an FB recruiter). The process consisted of an initial phone interview, followed by a writing sample test, and 2 more phone interviews. Since I was not in the US at the beginning of the process, I did one Skype interview and was flown out to Austin when I got back to have 4 more interviews at the office. My last interview was on a Thursday and I received a call on the following Tuesday. Rather than just saying "sorry can't offer you a position," the recruiter actually explained which questions indicated to the team that there might not be a match.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Marketing at Facebook
Posted Mar 4, 2012 — 4 of 6 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 Feb 2012 in Menlo Park, CA (took 1+ week)
Probably my mistake for not doing my research. I was expecting the position to be a senior level position in the Marketing domain. However it appears they were looking for an individual contributor. After applying for the job when HR arranged a phone interview, I had all my charts and processes ready to talk about role of social media marketing and improving marketing effectiveness but the interviewer started asking me about coin toss probabilities. I was asked two question both turned out to be trivia questions. Now working in marketing analytics for over 10 years and spending 60 hours a week helping companies improve their marketing ROI, i clearly didn't see this coming. I didnt want to play along with this so told the interviewer while I can attempt to solve the permutation/combination questions I was not interested and rather look at the business side of the decision. At one point I felt like telling the interviewer to stop so that I could get back to my work. With my busy schedule, it was a tough ask for me to get 30 minutes for this conversation, wasting it like this was n't a smart move. Lesson learnt, I will be more careful next time around before applying and not apply just because I want to jump on Facebook so some other flavor of the month bandwagon.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Asset Manager at Facebook
Posted Mar 9, 2012
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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 Feb 2012 in Menlo Park, CA (took 2 weeks)
It was very simple. Asked basic questions about the what Facebook is all about and what their major product is. 2nd round phone interview consisted of going through scenarios:
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Frontend Engineer at Facebook
Posted Mar 9, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 days)
Communications first occurred with a 30 minute phone screening to determine if I would be a good qualifying fit. From there, I was contacted with instructions to complete a programmatic challenge to be written in JavaScript that was estimated to take between 8 and 10 hours time as solved by current Facebook employees. The challenge, at it's core, was intended for candidates to prove their programming chops. Facebook was looking for both succinct and optimized solutions, i.e. you better use the most efficient algorithm available while still maintaining very few lines of code. The problem I was asked to solve looked fairly easy at face value, but I soon realized a few hours in that there were numerous edge cases that needed to be accounted for and would drastically reduce my algorithms efficiency due to nested loops. I solved the problem with a sub-optimal solution in around the time required but was denied continuation of the interview process. I wasn't given any real feedback, but I didn't ask for it either. The recruiter was very pleasant on the phone and in his emails.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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