I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Aug 2017
Interview
Interviewed as a contractor through another company that started as an employee referral from a friend. It took 2 weeks for the process for my resume to be given to the recruiter up until I received a verbal job offer. The interviews consisted mainly of open ended questions, some scenario-based, to seek your thought process, articulation, knowledge and a meaningful answer. Of course it's all about the right fit, both ways. If I could suggest an improvement, is to ensure that the interviewer allows enough time for the interviewee to ask a fair amount of questions (not just enough time for 1 or 2); not sure what the standard is but I would have appreciated 5 mins for an interactive conversation.
Timeline:
Day 1: Resume was given to a recruiter via employee referral.
Day 2: Recruiter reviewed my resume. We had a screening phone call to go over my background and the position.
Day 3: Facebook hiring manager reviewed my resume. Interview was scheduled for the following week.
Day 8: Video interview with the hiring manager (30 minutes). Next interview was scheduled for the following week.
Day 14: On-site interview with the hiring manager and her manager (30 mins was scheduled, and it went over by ~10 minutes). I received the verbal job offer from the recruiter 3-1/2 hours after the interview.
Tips:
+ Apply to jobs that really excite you, instead of applying to anything you're qualified to do.
+ Expand your network so you can leverage employee referrals (employee referrals have helped me secure 3 jobs throughout my career, jobs which totaled 12 years of my career.
+ Ask thoughtful questions in interviews. I always try to spin at least one open ended question off of what information the interviewer provided, to display my active listening skills and interest.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you describe the most complex project you led?
How do you prioritize competing projects?
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2017
Interview
Had one round of recruiter screen. Asked very general behavioral questions, emailed and said not moving forward with my candidacy. Overall professional and they do go down the pile and read resumes. So that's pretty impressive for a company this size.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself.
Why Facebook?
What's one Facebook product improvement you'd make?
The interviews are designed to be challenging - you're going to be asked to drill deep in a particular area or change course (depending on whether you have already covered enough ground or if it looks like you're stuck). Definitely look at Glassdoor for representative questions and practice ahead of time. I enjoyed this process. The Product sense and product execution interviewers let me know they would be taking notes and would interrupt me from time to time. That made it easy to take it in my stride.
It took them over a week to let me know of the outcome since their debrief meetings kept getting postponed. The recruiter kept me informed throughout the process so I was aware of what was going on.
My sense of the culture from the interviews was, they definitely look for a certain type of attributes in the types of PMs they hire - think fast on your feet, highly articulate and succinct. They certainly screen heavily for those attributes/characteristics. If you can nail that during your interviews, you will do well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Execution - FB decided to launch Reactions? How would you measure success? How would you test?
Prod Sense - Design a social travel product
Execution - How should FB grow registrations?
Prod Sense - Pick a product that you like. what do you like about it.