I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Nov 2015
Interview
I was recommended by a Facebook employer. Before attending the on-site interview, I held one short discussion with the recruiter and one phone-interview on the technical details. The on-site interview contains four sessions, two coding, one engineering, and one research. All the interviewers are well prepared, passionate, and welcoming. The whole procedure was highly streamlined and the recruiter was extremely efficient in keeping me in the loop.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Feb 2015
Interview
Phone interview with the HR about background and expectations on the job. Called in for on-site interview. 1 hour talk on my research topic and 5 back to back interview, lunch with a few team members. Overall experience was positive, some interviewers were more arrogant than others (a Facebook AI guy who dialed in, he was unprepared and asked me questions about my talk which didn't make much sense (probably didn't listen to my talk). One interviewer was a core developer (20 something young folk) asked me a coding question trying to make the question harder than it was. Changed the question in the mid-way which made it harder to finish. Behavioral questions followed a simple coding question (which later i found out that the question was wrongly stated).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the shortest substring in a very long string containing all the letters of the given word. find the next node in a binary search tree. find the peak and/or valley in a given array of integers, deep learning questions, some machine learning, NLP questions, questions about research topic.
Recruiter emailed me for a phone screening. After a week, an onsite was scheduled. Went in to meet with the hiring manager who went over the position and the company. He asked me to talk about myself first and then asked a more technical question. He then let me ask a few questions. It went a little bit over half an hour.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
The hiring manager mentioned something that's not in the job descriptions but obviously it's something that they were looking for in the candidate for the position. Unfortunately I didn't have it.