Recruiter reached out to me via email after an internal referral. I met a designer at Meta for 30 mins before my first interview.
Screening: past work presentation and app critique.
Onsite: 4 interviews – past work presentation, whiteboarding, app critique, background.
Pros:
- I got a lot of tips from the recruiter via email and general advice before the second interview.
- I was able to reschedule very easily.
Cons:
- I could see the interviewers were doing something else during the presentation. Even though I said with accompanying slides: "When I first started at X company, there was only a logo and no design system. I initiated the project, assembled the team, etc." or "I was the sole product designer on this project", I got the same question over and over: "How much of this did you do?"
When I was rejected, the recruiter mentioned: "it wasn't clear how much of it did you do". I was really surprised.