I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I submitted my resume online, and was called by a recruiter a little over a week later. The recruiter call went well. I was even told how impressive my experiences are and that I should expect a call from the hiring manager within the next few days. A week later, no call. Reached back out to the recruiter, no response.. so... yeah.
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Never got an official interview. Recruiting call was straight forward experience and interest questions.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2015
Interview
30 minutes each, with 4 separate people, each one asked different things - one about teamwork/cooperation, one about sales knowledge, one about client services skills/wins/difficult situations, one more about general skills/fit.
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If you had to name one company with strong potential to target as a sales prospect, who would it be?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta in Dec 2015
Interview
The interview process seemed to resemble a marathon race more than an interview for a job at a tech company - 3 months of interviewing which were comprised of:
1. Phone interview with a recruiter from the Ireland office
2. In-office interview with hiring manager (30 min)
3. In-office interview with another manager in the office, not related to the job (30 min)
4. In-office presentation (10 min) about a case based on a potential client - goal is to pitch how and why Facebook marketing is relevant for that client. The cases were a digital bank trying to target a specific market segment and also switch clients to online banking. The other case was an e-commerce merchant thinking of penetrating a new territory.
5. Step 4 followed on the same day by an interview with the hiring manager's manager (30 minutes)
6. Penultimate round of interviews with local office's manager
I didn't make it past step 6 - after that there's a final interview with an MD of the greater area. Only one candidate passes to that round.
I had to chase the recruiter throughout the process to know if I made it to the next rounds - twice, it was when I called her that I learned I passed and she then referred me to schedule the next interview. VERY unprofessional, completely NOT what I would expect from a company with such reputation and stature. The process seemed tedious for no good reason, too many short, shallow interviews - it's as if there's no power of hiring for the hiring manager.
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Question 1
Here's a full breakdown of the questions I was asked at each interview/round:
First Interview (after phone screening)
- What products/services are better advertised on FB?
- If you had a 10 client portfolio, of the same industry, and the information of all the advertising campaigns they ran on FB in the past 3 years, how would you conduct a SWOT analysis?
Second Interview
- What's the advantage to advertising with FB?
- If there's a new startup you've heard of would you take them as a new client? why?
- What companies currently advertise on FB in this country?
- How do you understand the role? Do you feel comfortable speaking in front of an audience?
- You're hired, you get your portfolio of clients, how do you approach it? what do you do first? how do you divide your time between the various clients?
- What are the weaknesses of FB as perceived by its potential clients?
- Are you more of an Excel/Powerpoint kind of girl?
- What C-level exec would you aspire to be?
Third Round
What is an attribution model?
Does google have any advantage on Facebook in attribution?
Tell me about a time where you used your consultative and sales skills.
Tell me about a situation where you had to work with someone you were in good terms or didn't get a long with
Let's say you're going for a quarterly review meeting with a client - what do you want to cover in that meeting? If you had a presentation with a table of contents - what would that say?
Fourth Round
Why this position?
What do you like about the local tech scene?
What don't you like?
What should your last employer change or do differently?
Are you more technical or analytical?
Do you have a background of presenting in front of people?