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Updated Feb 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Product Manager at Facebook
Posted Feb 8, 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 Jan 2012 in Menlo Park, CA (took a day)
I was contacted by a recruiter, and scheduled an interview. I wasn't sure about it but it seemed foolish not even to talk to Facebook. Invited to the new Menlo Park campus for two in-person interview with two different PMs.
One interview focused on improvements and product ideas for Facebook. The interviewers were both very pleasant to talk to, and pushed every idea I'd come up with further, asking questions like "What are the potential drawbacks of that?" or "How would you integrate that with X other feature on Facebook?"
The other focused on logic and estimation problems, seeing if I could come up with a reasonable method for estimating impossible-to-nail values. This was pretty fun, actually, and I think went pretty well.
In the end, I received an email rejection after following up a few days later with a vague statement about how I could have had better vision -- reading between the lines, I hadn't done my homework in advance on the current cutting-edge developments at Facebook.
Still a very positive experience, and the two PMs I talked to were genuine, friendly, and enthusiastic about the process and any questions I had.
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Product Manager at Facebook
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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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 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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Product Manager at Facebook
Posted May 18, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Apr 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 4+ weeks)
The recruiter wanted to do a phone interview. She kept postponing or entirely forgetting - I think that was extremely rude even for Facebook. Finally managed a 1:1 interview. Kept waiting in the lobby, eventually was escorted to the interview room. Found the interviewer sitting there. The interviewer was asking a few questions and seemed to be interested. What threw me off was that the interviewer asked the same question in a different way that I have already answered (e.g. what changes would you like to make). Looked like the interviewer was taking notes furiously or was it doodling ?
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Product Manager at Facebook
Posted Mar 9, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 1+ week)
I passed a phone screen with a recruiter and was then invited in for an in person interview. They had me come all the way to campus in the middle of the work day only for one interview. My interviewer didn't ask very challenging questions, so it was easy to do well. But then I was told by the recruiter that they had no interest in me. I'm not sure why they wasted my time having me come in. It also seems unfair to use one very junior PM's limited evaluation of me to make their entire judgement. I feel like that interview should have been on the phone, or they should have had someone more than a year and a half out of school interview me when I was on campus, too.
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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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Product Manager at Facebook
Posted Jan 5, 2010 — 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 Nov 2009 in Palo Alto, CA (took a day)
Very professional and timely ... the HR recruiter and the PM who interviewed me were both very candid, which was much appreciated.
Given my seniority, there were no open positions in this role, for which they hire far fewer people than for engineering roles.
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