Interviewed for a senior PM role by a PMs with less than 3 years of experience. They clearly had an issue with my experience and ago. Facebook not only has the worse diversity numbers in Silicon Valley, but is also ground zero for age discrimination. They need to seriously revamp their interview training to take unintended bias into consideration. If they tell you they need people who are more hands on in their "operating environment" then that is code language for you are too old. Or, you're just older than the people interviewing. Zuck once said, "Young people are just smarter," and it is clear nothing has changed. If you are 35+ then your chances are slim regardless of your education, where you've worked, or your qualifications. If you are over 40, then don't bother.
Surprised they haven't been sued for discrimination by now.
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Standard questions mention by others on glass door.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Apr 2016
Interview
Overall process was organized, efficient, and challenging. I was applying for a specialist role but still went through the generalist process. Appreciated meeting PMs from different parts of the org but as a result didn't get a chance to really know the team that I wanted to join. Required two visits to the campus but everything was wrapped up within a two week time frame. Interviewers were all on time, well prepared, friendly, and open.
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How would you bootstrap a product that helps people find apartments and how would you differentiate it from existing competitors?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2016
Interview
Have been recommended twice by former co-workers/current employees. Passed the phone screens 4 times with 4 different HR people only to have the hiring manager not want to do the phone interview with me. I'm 40+ so and it feels like I haven't made it further because the hiring managers are uncomfortable working with people older and/or more experienced than them. I'm in tech, haven't had a boss older than me since I was in my 20s, it doesn't bother me. And, if they met me and didn't want to hire me I could understand that too. Not being able to get an interview is a real problem.
The HR people were very nice and efficient.
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Question 1
We discussed a specific product and what I thought of it. They picked the product where I had the most experience and asked about how I would make their product better. Also asked a couple of questions about my personal strengths and weaknesses. They wanted to know about my technical experience and my experience launching products.