I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I got an internal referral and the recruiters took it from there. They were very courteous and prompt in their email responses. They sent me a long prep document that very clearly laid out what you will be tested on, along with some sample questions. The actual interview aligned closely with what was said in the prep documents.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2017
Interview
Got scheduled through a recruiter. It takes 2-3 weeks for the interview to get scheduled. Focus A LOT on SQL or Python (mainly dictionaries and lists) depending on what what you choose.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
There is a feature for showing friend requests. How do you measure its impact and how do you decide whether to keep it.
A set of values given: Assume table in SQL or list of dictionaries if using Python.
Basically a row of data contained information:
if it is post or it is a comment, row id and some other data.
Find distribution of comments.
#comments # posts
1 5000
2 6787
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2017
Interview
Phone interview with Data Scientist after conversation with HR. The interviewer was professional but did not followed the interview format described by HR - for example, I had only 3 minutes left for SQL assignment at the end of the interview instead of the announced 20. I am not sure what the skill set they are looking for - I got a feeling that ideal candidate is the one who knows FB products and industry terminology well and can type fast.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Product questions heavily focused on FB products. How would you measure success of a new product? SQL assignment was to write a query which computes conversion rates for 2 products given the log of users actions with type of action for each product type.