Facebook Operations Engineer Interview

Interview Details – 2 weeks after applying online I received a call from one of their recruiters. We had a chat about my current job and discussed some details of the job offer, including my salary expectations.

After that we setup a first phone interview with someone from the Palo Alto office. This interview covered Linux, troubleshooting and some networking. This interviewer was very friendly and the interview itself went pretty well.

For the second one they asked me to go to a document sharing web site and write a script. Unlike the previous one, this interviewer was not friendly at all, he seemed to be doing me a favor by wasting his time interviewing me and was completely quiet during the 30 minutes. I was stuck in one part of the problem and he didn't do anything to help me, like in other interviews I've gone through.

I did a third interview which was similar to the first one but more focused on troubleshooting, although we also touched networking and the Linux boot process. Again, this interviewer was nice and friendly.

After one week the recruiter came back to me to confirm what I suspected already, we would not proceed further because I didn't do well enough in the scripting part. I'm pretty sure that had the interviewer been more helpful I would have arrived at the solution. The recruited mentioned that I did very well on the other parts and that if I work on my scripting skills for a few months I could re-apply and take it from there.

Because of this person I am rating the interview process as neutral and not positive, and will most likely not try again given the constant privacy concerns surrounding this company.

The interviewing process is interesting and worth going through, though.