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Updated Apr 19, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer Intern at Facebook
Posted Apr 19, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 4+ weeks)
I had two technical interviews, both on the phone since I live in Europe and all of Facebook's development is done in the U.S. They talk to you on the phone while asking questions, then you code in an online text editor of which they can see the results live as well.
They're very reasonable during these interviews: when you didn't quite get a question, they'll happily explain it better, if your answer is good but not quite there, they'll point you in the direction they want to hear more details about, and so on.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer Intern at Facebook
Posted Apr 4, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 (took 2 weeks)
I had an initial informal interview with the campus recruiter who got me a technical phone interview. The technical interview was on the phone, was 45 minutes long, and consisted of two programming questions that were relatively easy. The recruiter was pretty friendly, and the interviewer was pretty cordial. I felt confident about the interview, but I was told I wasn't a good fit.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineering Intern at Facebook
Posted Mar 27, 2012
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2.0
Easy 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)
Popular algorithmic questions . A few puzzles.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineering Intern at Facebook
Posted Mar 8, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Menlo Park, CA (took 1+ week)
I applied for the position when Facebook was interviewing on campus. Emailed my resume on the deadline, called up for interview within 5 days. After passing the first interview, I was informed that evening that I had a second interview the next day. After that, it was about a week or so before I heard back, and since I was a graduate student the third and last stage was to match me with a particular group. Within a few days of the matching process (done via phone) I received my offer letter.
The two on-campus interviews consisted of writing down actual code (in my case, I used Java) and they were fairly basic and specific data structures related questions.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Facebook
Posted Feb 29, 2012
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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 Dec 2011 (took 2+ weeks)
3 phone interviews. The first two was pretty good. The third interviewer is rude and has strong accent.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Facebook
Posted Feb 23, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Menlo Park, CA (took 2 weeks)
Stopped by Facebook's table at my university's career fair to drop off my resume.
Got an email in about a week saying they wanted to interview me at my university's career center. If I did well on my interview, they would schedule another one for me the next day.
First interview was 30-min, one technical coding question and "Why Facebook?"
Found out that evening that I was invited for another interview the next day.
Second interview was 45-min, 3 technical coding questions and "Why Facebook?" (again)
Recruiter emailed all my university recruits saying they would collect results and let us know within a week.
Tuesday, got an email from my recruiter saying I did well on my interviews. She introduced me to a different recruiter, to whom I had to send my availability for a phone call to discuss next steps. I thought I needed to schedule another interview; however it turns out my recruiter was calling me to extend me an offer.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer Intern at Facebook
Posted Feb 17, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (Poland) (took 2 months)
Facebook visited my university. We had a 45 min test and some of us were invited for 1:1 interview next day.
After that interview, recruiter contacted me like 2-3 weeks later and arranged phone interview.
Interviewers were very friendly. At the start they told me something about what they are working on, they gave me a small programming challenge. Interviewer wanted to know about my ideas for solving the problem and gave small hints if I got stuck.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Facebook
Posted Jan 23, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 (took 8 weeks)
The interviewers were very nice - couldn't understand what one interviewer was saying, but he wrote the tasks and it was ok in the end. Had planned 3 technical interviews in total, failed the last one. The recruiters were extremely nice and prompt. Will definitely apply next year, all the interviewers seemed to be energetic and enthusiastic about their work - sound like the team I want to be part of and definitely worth the struggle.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Facebook
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 days)
Gave resume to recruiter at college career fair. Heard back in a week, and scheduled an on-campus interview. Passed that interview and scheduled a final interview. Passed that one too, and got an offer.
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Software Engineer Intern at Facebook
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 days)
All the interview questions are technical and straight forward. There were 2 rounds, both on campus. Each took 30 minutes or so. The questions were not hard. They just wanted to see how you solved a problem. I got the offer 2 days after my 2nd round. Their recruiting process was really fast.
Interview Questions
For example, from array 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1
You should get 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1
Write a program to solve this problem.
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