I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2021
Interview
received a mail from recuiter of Facebook London office,
set up a 45 mins Bluejeans Screening Interview with the recuiter,
send the prepration materials,
the 2nd interview with a data scientist in the group
feed back is not good,end the process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question: Several years ago FB was considering building a product around High Schools. At the time we had 300 million users fill out their current high school. How would you determine if the data is real?
Product Interpretation
Questions: How would you measure the health of the Newsfeed product? Should we double the amount of ads in Newsfeed?
Technical Analysis
Based on table provided:
What stat would you pull to get a high level view of feed and engagement?
How would you size the revenue opportunity for sponsored posts? How would you redo the sizing for revenue on sponsored posts?
How would you quantify if a sponsored post is creating a poor experience for users?
Quantitative Analysis
Total 7 rounds: first round for resume screening, second for technical screening, then for on-site virtual with 4 interviews back to back, then hiring manager round after team matching and then salary negotiation with HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Meta’s evaluation rubrics focus heavily on "Product Thinking over Fancy Math". Interviewers want to see if you can operate like a product owner with an analytical mindset, navigating messy scenarios affecting billions of users
The Interview Process is very structured -
First Tech Screening round - 45 mins (usually can extend a bit depending on the interviewer)
- 2 SQL Questions ( Medium to Hard ) - based on Joins
Full Loop - 4 rounds 45 mins each.
- SQL
- Behavioral
- Analytical Execution - stats & prob, A/B testing, case study
- Analytical Reasoning - Case study
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on Bayes Theorem, Probability distribution, etc.
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Completed 3 rounds of the process, which includes the initial recruiter screen, technical, full loop, and team matching.
Couldn't move past the full loop interview. The interview was very engaging, and I actually enjoyed working through the cases. No crazy questions.
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