Facebook Engineering Manager Interview

Interview Details – The hiring process was pretty smooth. You operate through a recruiter as your aid on the other side. Mine was friendly and quick to respond to a lot of my questions and kept me up to date with the whole process.

The initial process was a brief phone meeting with the recruiter. She asked me a few easy questions which I assume were to check if I was competent and then set up a call with an engineer at Facebook. On the phone we talked for a while and he explained the company culture, asked me some softball questions about my resume and then asked technical questions and had me write code in a shared editor from my computer. Your basic CS-200 algorithms questions.

A few days later I was invited to the Facebook HQ and met with a half dozen people including my recruiter. She took me to lunch at the cafe and then I went through a number of interviews. Most of which were asking me coding questions to write out on the whiteboard. More CS-200 algorithm style questions. One part of the interview that was fun was more of a architecture question where I designed a system for serving news feed.

A couple days later I had an offer over the phone from my recruiter and a full packet came in the mail a few days after that.

Negotiation Details – I was able to negotiate a little bit, but not much. At the time they were much more willing to negotiate on stock options and less willing to negotiate on salary. I'm not sure how that's changed over time.