Candidates applying for Research Scientist I roles take an average of 150 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 36 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Research Scientist I according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2026
Interview
Reached out by the recruiter. All recruiters and interviewers were really nice and kind. OA with 4 questions, LC Medium. Then, there are 4 interviews: Coding 2 LC Mediums (45 min) + PhD Behavioral (45 min) + ML System design (45 min) + AI Assisted Coding (1hr). Overall, the process is lengthy, but be sure to rigorously prepare and practice. Lack of practice might make you mess things up, especially in ML design and Coding rounds.
Rec screen + Coding screen + 2 coding + 1 ml sys design + behavioral. Coding was primarily from leetcode meta tagged top 100- 2 questions in each interview, sys design went in depth.
a 4-part interview including a research presentation, 2 skills interviews, and a behavioral interview via Zoom. The interviewers seemed disengaged and not interested. A lot of questions tested survey design, working with missing data., and building weights.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Based on the given dataset, how would you construct survey weights?