I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Jul 2021
Interview
The interview process is overall extremily smooth -- the recruiters in particular are very helpful and give you lots of information about what to expect. The interview overall is very focused on business acumen as opposed to technical skills. This reflects the role at Meta where your most important asset is using data to influence business decisions -- which often doesn't require anything beyond asking good questions and producing some good summary statistics. There were 4 half hour parts: 1. A "very broad" business problem. Such as "how do you evaluate the success of Newsfeed?" 2. A somewhat narrower but still open ended problem such as "what do you do about 'fake' friend requests"? 3. A SQL section -- "how would you query X from this table?" 4. A stats teaser -- "if a doctor has a test with 99% accuracy but only 5% of the population has a disease, what is the chance their patient has the disease with a positive test?" (Bayes Rule)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: What would you do about the problem of "fake" friend requests
The Interview Process is very structured -
First Tech Screening round - 45 mins (usually can extend a bit depending on the interviewer)
- 2 SQL Questions ( Medium to Hard ) - based on Joins
Full Loop - 4 rounds 45 mins each.
- SQL
- Behavioral
- Analytical Execution - stats & prob, A/B testing, case study
- Analytical Reasoning - Case study
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on Bayes Theorem, Probability distribution, etc.
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Completed 3 rounds of the process, which includes the initial recruiter screen, technical, full loop, and team matching.
Couldn't move past the full loop interview. The interview was very engaging, and I actually enjoyed working through the cases. No crazy questions.
It's all organized. Be prepared to showcase your depth of thinking. Two analytical rounds will make you think on your ability to solve probability and experimentation problems. Have a structure for everything
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