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Updated Mar 30, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Facebook
Posted Mar 30, 2012
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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 Mar 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took a day)
There were 2 phone calls with techinical questions about data structure. The second guy gave me some wrong condition
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Facebook
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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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 Feb 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took 4 weeks)
two phone interviews, BST print by level, String manipulation
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Intern at Facebook
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took 1+ week)
I had 2 phone screens before I got internship offer. Both had the same format - first 5 minutes talking about my experience, then ~30 minutes of coding questions. My interviewers were nice, smart and asked only reasonable questions. After each interview I had couple more minutes to ask my own questions and learn something about Facebook.
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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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Product Manager at Facebook
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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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 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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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Operations Engineer at Facebook
Posted Jan 5, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 5 months)
I was contacted by a recruiter because they found my resume on LinkedIn. I had a quick screening phone interview with the recruiter, before having two technical phone interviews, where we shared a collaborative text document so that they could see what I typed. Each of the two interviews lasted about 45-60 minutes. Finally, I had a somewhat shorter (30 minute) management interview.
At this point, they decided to fly me to Facebook for on-site interviews. I was passed from my recruiter to a coordinator who organized the on-site schedule. I flew down the night before and left the evening afterwards. All meals, transportation and lodging were paid for or expensed to Facebook.
The actual on-site interviews were fun. I was given a brief tour by my coordinator, then led into a (very) small conference room with whiteboards. I had four interviews total, with lunch in-between with my coordinator. Each interview was about an hour or so. One was with a manager. One was a coding interview. Two were systems-oriented, since this was an Applications Operations Engineering (aka Site Reliability Engineering, etc.) position.
Over the next several days, my coordinator was able to share a bunch of feedback from the interviewers. All four interviewers recommended a hire. I was told that there would be two meetings to make a decision. Once with the AppOps team, and once with some higher-ups for final approval.
I was informed that they would keep my resume on file, but that they wouldn't be making me an offer shortly after the designated time for the second meeting. Though the message also stated that my coordinator would like to chat with me to discuss why they came to their decision, to date we've had trouble scheduling a time. Understandably, I suspect I'm less of a priority for the coordinator now that I'm not a candidate.
Overall the experience was quite positive and everyone I spoke to was great. Facebook genuinely seems like a great place to work. My only complaints thus far (in chronological order) are:
1. My recruiter often took a week or more to respond to my messages. Partially (though by no means entirely) as a result of this, the interview process took several months.
2. I found the CS interview questions, especially those on-site, to be disappointingly easy. This may have been due to time constraints, though.
3. Because of the lengths of the interviews, I had relatively little time to ask questions of the interviewers. The one exception was my last interview of the day. Because there was nothing but a debrief with my coordinator afterwards, I was able to chat more with the interviewer. This gave me a lot more insight into Facebook, and also resulted in him more strongly recommending a hire.
4. To date I haven't been able to pin my coordinator down for why I wasn't offered the position.
Overall, if you're given the opportunity to interview with Facebook, go for it. At the very least, the process is a lot of fun. And maybe you'll get a job at a great company!
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Facebook
Posted Dec 30, 2011 — 1 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 Oct 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2+ weeks)
First got an HR interview, asking very basic questions including some simple technical questions. Then first round asked me a coin probability problem. After that, the 2nd interviewer asked me sqrt() but I stupidly failed this problem. Great people, though interviewers are not very friendly.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Data Scientist at Facebook
Posted Dec 18, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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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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Software Engineering New Grad at Facebook
Posted Dec 2, 2011 — 3 of 3 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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Human Resources at Facebook
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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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 Aug 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took a day)
Interviewed with 4 individuals. Interview process very disorganized. Recruiter could not find a conference room. One interviewer didn't make it in to work that day, so we interviewed over by phone. There was general confusion as to what the essential responsibilities of the actual role were going to be and the reporting structure. The last interview, with the attorney, argued that the position wasn't really needed and he didn't know what HR was thinking.
The final meeting (with the attorney upstairs), was in an office akin to a 60's love nest--stereo, bar, cushions on the floor.
I left thinking their recruiting and interviewing proccess could sure use some refinement.
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