I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Sep 2020
Interview
I thought the recruiter I spoke to on the phone was great and did everything to make the process seamless.
I am completely disappointed with the technical person who interviewed me.
This is not because I received an email saying "we do not have anything that matches your interest". FB should not have started this process is they knew that they do not have anything of interest to offer.
Coming to the person who interviewed me. I thought he was very disinterested in the process and he started the interview with a bias in mind. One needs to understand that this interview is as much important to his company as me. In the short window of time he gets with me, he needs to be ideal representative of his company's culture.
This person working with FB for more than 10 years (straight out of college) does not make others any less deserving of the job. There is a basic decency you can exude from your body language and tone of voice. I wish FB just does not invest in young people who end up rejecting not so young people (15+ years experience) away. It is putting company in a harms way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral mostly. Few technical system design related
Recruiter call - fairly easy to arrange. It followed by a self service careers portal invite to arrange round-1 which had 2 interviews. One system design and one behavioural. Easy to arrange except for few niggles in the portal login. Then I was ghosted by the recruiter”s”.
Went through Behavioral and System Design after recruiter call .It was not difficult but it didn't go through so guess i have to prepare more.Asked about typical Engineering management questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system to sync all the files and media with in the company
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I was contacted by a Meta recruiter by email. I then scheduled a call through the system instructed by the email. The recruiter called on the the day but 10 minute after the scheduled time. That's a quick call, and I was asked whether I would apply for position in infrastructure domain or product domain, I said 'product'. Then I was set up for a virtual interview with a Meta manager. At the beginning of the interview, I was asked whether I am OK to have someone else watch the interview, I said 'yes'. The interview was not hard, but unfortunately I didn't perform well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me my current responsibilities. They also asked whether I had been involved in hiring and separation process, and how.
