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 online. I interviewed at Meta (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2021
Interview
I had two rounds of interview. One interviewer was friendly but the other one was not. They typically asked about coding questions at median level but the time was very limited for candidates to solve the problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One is about binary search. The other is about tree and recursive traversal.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta in Jul 2021
Interview
Had an initial phone screen for their research scientist position which is a 1 hour long screening. The interviewer jumped right into the interview and the first was a LC medium question which had to be solved within 20-25 mins since the second part was an applied stats questions on expectation and cdf, pdf derivations. The last part was supposed to be an applied ML question. For my part, took me quite a while for the stats question with lots of hints since my stats knowledge on pdf to cdf and expectation was a bit rusty. Overall seemed like a reasonable process if you prepare a little with the stats basics and practice some probability puzzles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LC medium, applied stats on expectation of random variables
I took the phone interview at FB, which included two Leetcode problems (easy/medium) level, with big(O) follow up. No resume went through or other stuff, only the algorithm problems were asked. Overall it felt good, the interviewer gave hints when I stuck.