I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Jun 2024
Interview
Had a recruiter phone call screening then a 45min technical screening with a product data scientist - asked a couple of SQL questions then product metrics + some stats questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL - get users who called more than 3 different people during the week; get percentage of users who were active and used the video feature
Product - given those two metrics we calculated in SQL, how do we say if the group feature is in demand; what other data table would we need to decide; what if the usage of other product like messenger goes down because of the launch of this video feature
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta (London, England) in Feb 2022
Interview
Process was quite long due to Christmas happening in between but went roughy like this:
1) 45 min recruiter call discussing role and if you have the relevant back ground
2) 45 min technical phone screen incl. 20 min SQL and 20 min product sense, 5 min q&a
3) 2 hours virtual onsite, with 4 back to back 30 min interviews testing product sense (product interpretation and applied data), SQL, quantitative analysis (stats and probability)
Still waiting for them to come back with a decision, have been told to expect one within 1-1.5 weeks of the last interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Similar to what's already on this page.
- Product sense questions are either about gauging your product knowledge/understanding through questions like how would you measure the success / health of product/feature x
- The other part of product sense is evaluating you on your approach to a problem and how you are able to articulate an executable plan in a data-driven and hypothesis driven manner e.g. questions like if metric that we care about went up/down, how would you investigate this problem?
- SQL questions are leetcode medium-hard level and quantitative analysis is about your understanding of probability and statistics fundamentals.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
I am only at the screening stage.
The srceening interview takes 45min :
-2 min of presentation
-2 coding questions for a total of 20 min
-2 product question for a total of 20 min
-Q&A of 3 min
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you mesure the success of a new friend recommendation algorythm ?