My experience was strange. I had originally applied to 2 different open positions unrelated to PM. A few days later I received an email from a recruiter wanting to schedule a phone call with me. Fast forward to that day the recruiter never called and didn’t send an email mentioning anything changing. I then emailed them to ask about it but never received a reply back that whole day. Not sure what could have happened but I take it as highly unprofessional!
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Sep 2020
Interview
I was asked the same interview questions as were posted here on Glassdoor. I come with significant PM experience. The interviewers were very junior, who seem to follow a script and expect a scripted response. If you sway away from their scripted response, they don't know how to react and don't know how to ask further probing questions.
This interview has been one of the most derogatory interviews that I have been to. One of the interviewers was setting the stage initially on how great Facebook is and look its hiring during COVID too (which other companies are also doing in the software industry). This interviewer also said that one of the biggest reasons we are interviewing you is because this is the best time to hire cheap talent!!! This is what threw me off. First of all, she had no right to call me a cheap talent. I would like Facebook to look into each interviewer they pick.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
A friend contacted me because we had worked together at a previous company and I had specific experience for the kind of product they were developing in her group and hit many of the buzzwords on their job ad. She passed my resume directly to the hiring manager. I got a brief reply from the recruiter "no fit". I spoke with the recruiter didn't seem to know what product managers do. . My friend said the job went to someone in her group.