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 an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
AI Research: go through research papers, discuss in detail. Have many followup questions about the papers.
AI Coding: two questions, one is ML, one is leet code question. Not hard, but focus on communication.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Cambridge, MA) in Dec 2025
Interview
Full loop interview including one coding session, an ML systems design session, a PhD behavioral, and one AI assisted coding session. Each session was one hour and spread across two days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Roundtrip plane scheduling problem, debug a C++ class system.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
Code screen was code signal and pretty standard: 2 super easy questions then 2 harder questions, one about memory allocation and 1 array based problem. They weren't easy but the problems weren't hard to understand and i dont believe they had hidden test cases
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
make functions to alloc and free memory given an array of "available memory" and a list of alloc and free commands to run