I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
The entire process happened very quickly. I had applied online in January. I got a call from the recruiter midweek of March stating that she wanted to set up an interview. The coding interview was set up immediately after two days. It was a 45 minute coding interview. They basically targeted datastructures and algorithms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given that: '1' mapped to--> 'a', '2' -->'b' , '3'--> 'c'...like wise... '26'-->'z'.
Output should be in the following pattern :
Ex.1) if we input f="111", the output should be: aaa, ak, ka
//(111)->aaa, (1, 11)->ak, (11,1)->ka
Ex. 2) f="131" output: aca, ma
//(131)->aca, (13,1)->ma
Ex. 3) f="101", output: ja
//(10,1)->ja
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Oct 2014
Interview
1 hour remote phone hour interview. Highly technical, no personality or cultural questions. All they care about is technical capability, as you start contract, they don't care about personality. I was applying for a corporate network position, and only interviewed with one Infrastructure Manager who asked me a barrage of questions related to core networking concepts and application networking. It was a pretty in depth technical interview. The biggest red flag I should have realized is the manager described the environment at Facebook as sink or swim.. Which meant every man for themselves. There's no teamwork atmosphere at Facebook. I got the job and regret I did.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you view current connections on an f5 load balancer?
I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Great HR folks. Very co-operative and helpful.
I had 2 technical phone screens with engineers and 2 phone calls with recruiters. All were very nice and smooth.
They asked me to fly to their HQ in CA, I had 5 on site interviews and a lunch with the hiring manager.
Out of 6 folks, 4 of them were very friendly and professional.
1 of them was quite rude and the way I got that engineer's response to my questions and their body language assured me that I am not getting this job.
The 6th person was from a different team and was a bit arrogant about the knowledge they acquired over the years and why they know a lot and I don't! that was my another sign of NOT getting this job.
I was told by the recruiter right before I left FB's campus that the feedback is not positive.
The travelling and reimbursement process is a bit tedious.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing extremely difficult. Just be prepared, don't follow the job description only, there will be a lot more than that.