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No Offer – Reviewed May 14, 2013
Interview Details Received a call from an engineer in the US and I did not managed to solve the challenge. Got some questions about my studies and my career.
Interview Question – The coding exercise Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in London, England Jan 2013 – Reviewed Feb 21, 2013
Interview Details
First interview: 20 minute phone conversation about past experience with a technical recruiter that works for them.
Second interview: 45 minute phone interview, with a PC in front. He gave me some details about the company and gave me one coding challenge.
Interview Question – During the second interview, I was asked to implement LCA in a binary tree (not BST) on collabedit.com. I was close, but not close enough... View Answer
No Offer – Interviewed in London, England Oct 2012 – Reviewed Oct 22, 2012
Interview Details
I saw the role advertised on facebook.com/careers and it looked made for me: my level of experience, exact sector specialisms and working in a team that I had had regular contact with in a previous role.
I first contacted a few people within Facebook (either my own contacts or through colleagues) to understand more about the role, working at Facebook and the recruitment process. A huge positive for the company is that everyone you speak to at Facebook is amazingly enthusiastic about working there and very keen to pass that enthusiasm on to you.
I submitted a customised, comprehensive CV and cover letter to my main contact at Facebook who said she would pass it on to the HR lead working on this role.
Two weeks go by and, fortunately for me, I spent a bit of time prepping for a possible interview (thanks Glassdoor for some great interview question suggestions!)
After two weeks, I send my contact a chasing email and at 4.30pm that afternoon, a recruitment manager from Facebook emailed to request a half hour phone interview at 6.30 that evening - lucky I'd done some prep already.
On the phone interview, the lady was initially unsure which role I was interviewing for and had not got my CV or cover letter. She told me that the hiring manager was in London in two days time so we had to move quickly. Oh, and the job description online has now changed - they require someone with different sector specialism and technical product experience. We spent 30 mins talking through my CV, why I wanted to work for Facebook and what I thought I could bring to the role, but it was clear that the goal posts had moved and I was no longer suitable for the role... Surprise surprise, no call back.
Overall a disappointing experience with a disorganised and unclear process.
Interview Question – Why do you want to work for Facebook? View Answers (2)
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in London, England Aug 2011 – Reviewed Sep 05, 2012
Interview Details Lengthy, multiple rounds, focused on a mixture of technical skills and working style. Very fair interview was given ample notice to prepare for it and background information about the interviewers was shared in advance of the interview date. Great at providing feedback after reach stage and was overall a success
Interview Question – None. Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in London, England Jun 2011 – Reviewed Nov 03, 2011
Interview Details Terrible process, very unclear, had 4 HR points of contact and was given no overview of the actual role. When I came to the second interview with the manager he called me 15 minutes late and was in a hotel lobby it was extremely noisy, he seemed distracted and uninterested. I was told I would hear back in a week, I heard nothing, waited and waited heard nothing, so e-mailed after 3 weeks and nothing returned, e-mailed 2 weeks later and got an out of office that she had left. I then did not follow up. But terrible from the recruiters and really put me off them.
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jun 06, 2013 New
Interview Details I had three different phone interviews in addition to the on-site and the online timed writing task. They want to make sure you are a good fit for Facebook. It's also a great opportunity for you to make sure Facebook is a good fit for you. All-in-all, it was a smooth process and my recruiter was awesome. My advice: prep yourself for the interviews (e.g. come up with answers to possible questions, scenarios, etc.)!
Interview Question – I don't think I can answer this due to the NDA, but be prepared for team and personality questions. Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Palo Alto, CA (US) Jun 2013 – Reviewed Jun 16, 2013 New
Interview Details
Had a phone screen with the recruiter followed by an on-site interview with 2 PMs.
The on-site included 1 vision interview and 1 product analysis interview.
The vision interview was surprisingly broad, exploring other industries which was quite fun.
Overall, very positive experience.
Interview Question – Case study of a problem with the FB app: how would you solve a specific issue with the app? Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY (US) – Reviewed Jun 15, 2013 New
Interview Details Started with a phone interview which led to an on-site. I had a coding question at the same level difficulty that you would expect for an on-site in the initial phone interview. The NYC office was really nice and the on-site interview process is about the same as most other tech companies, usually starting with coding questions and then one architecture/design question.
Interview Question – Many of the questions exploited data structures for fast running time. Also I'd practice designing features. Answer Question
No Offer – Reviewed Jun 11, 2013 New
Interview Details
Pretty unprofessional recruiter, missed the scheduled phone interview after being referred over through someone that worked in the design team.
Got a call back after two weeks of referral.
Phone interview was pretty standard. Why do you want to work here specifically at Facebook? What UX? What experience do you have? etc.
Interview Question – Tell me about the design of your study. View Answer
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Menlo Park, CA (US) – Reviewed May 26, 2013
Interview Details
1. Phone interview with recruiter. They're looking for enthiusiasm!
2. Onsite with boss and manager. They don't emphasize that you NEED to know how to code, but it certainly helps. You really ought to understand SQL well enough to do JOINS, UNIONS, GROUP BYs
3. Onsite with various people (engineer, product manager, two analysts/data scientists). Various Python and SQL questions. Was also asked to create or take an existing product on Facebook and come up with ways to drive engagement.
Interview Question – Write a function that takes in two sorted lists and outputs a sorted list that is their union. View Answer
Negotiation Details – I accepted the offer immediately, it was exactly what I was looking for.
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