I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2014
Interview
Consisted of an initial phone screen with follow up phone interviews. Facebook reached out to me directly. I was hesitant at first given my previous experience with them but figured i'd try anyway. The first interviewer asked me over a dozen times how many projects i've managed contiguously and whether I was interested in the position. It felt like there was a lot of talking but not a lot of listening. After my first phone screen I had a second interview with a gentleman who kept telling me how fortunate I would be to work at facebook and that they have the best engineers in the bay area. I feel like I asked them more questions than they asked me and they weren't able to provide me with details. Everyone I interviewed with made sure I knew they were on friendly terms with Mark (they call him by first name) and that I would be privileged to work there. the process was a complete turn off. Felt like I was with children.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They didn't ask me anything difficult, unexpected, or in any way innovative. One interviewer asked me if I owned my own business what would it be which they later used my response to say that I wasn't really interested in the job.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Meta in Jun 2014
Interview
One of their recruiters reached out to me on LinkedIn, and we set up a time to talk. The recruiter was very aggressive, and indicated they liked to move quickly. We had an hour set up to talk, and used the whole time, and the recruiter had to leave the call right at the end of the hour.
I was concerned that the position wasn't the right fit for me (currently in an executive role within a technology organization, however I have a very technical background). The recruiter quickly dismissed my concerns, and proceeded to continue a technical "quiz show" ("describe for me the TCP three-way handshake and what impact latency has on user experience" for example). We finished the hour with essentially no time for me to ask any questions to qualify the position or if it was something _I_ was interested in.
They immediately scheduled an interview with someone in the group I'd be working in. We started the call talking about what I'm doing now, and the interviewer asked me why I was interested in this role. I explained I didn't have the opportunity to qualify the position with the recruiter, and was looking to get that out of this call. After a couple more minutes, we acknowledged it was not a position I was interested in, and that I'd be better off in the engineering organization, which the interviewer would recommend back to the recruiter.
I emailed the recruiter back with the same, and never heard from him again. Based on his title and his LinkedIn profile, I suspect he recruits specifically for this role, and wasn't going to spend any time trying to help fill another role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General technical "quiz show" - nothing particularly difficult for someone who has long been in the field.