I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jul 2018
Interview
They are very interested in your success and very communicative and professional. However, the process was unnecessarily lengthy. The informal interview/talk with a Data Scientist was not necessary in my case.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Product case interview, SQL coding interview using coderpad. All these are provided in the interview materials provided by the recruiter.
a female recruiter reached to me out of the blue, then set up a chat on the phone. She quickly jumped into a "standard" session regardless of what technical expertise and background you have. she seems to only know or focus on Business Sense or Product Sense. when I asked her some basic organization structure question, she seems no knowledge or not willing to answer at all, and she was rude and asked me to Google it myself. that was really funny. she is chi-cago based. avoid her
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jul 2018
Interview
Contacted by recruiter over LinkedIn. Set up a time to connect. Further set up a Skype interview with a manager. Based on feedback, recommended me to speak with another recruiter in a different division. Had another skype interview, followed by onsite. Had 4 different interviews in the Onsite round, two focused on Product sense, one technical and one on probability/statistics.
The interview seemed like they were looking for people who could be well paid cogs in a machine. The interview schedule was designed with just a 15 min break and ran from 10.15 through 2 pm with little time to grab lunch or being provided one. Most companies either provide lunch if an interview happens to be scheduled during lunch hours or schedule an interview that ends before / starts after lunch time.
Also, it seemed solving the actual interview questions mattered less than what an interviewer already predecided to offer as feedback based on their opinions about your resume beforehand. Inspite of claims of it being a very rigorous and fair process, it seems there is lot of inbuilt subjectivity in the process and lot of leeway allowed in interview feedback as well as the hire / no hire decision.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Signed NDA. Questions focused on product, and how to infer information based on given data by customers.