I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
It started out pleasant with a phone screen conversation with the recruiter but then went downhill from there. They were very late for the technical phone interview, but I brushed it off as an anomaly. Then came the onsite. First interviewer was nice and intelligent but seemed to be expecting me to provide a very specific solution that he had obviously rehearsed very well. Though what I provided was close, it looks like he wrote me off because I didn't get that exact solution. The next interviewer was a very jaded engineer who clearly didn't want to be there. Unresponsive to questions. It was very awkward and put me off in a major way. The experience interview was the only good interview in my opinion and I had a good exchange. The system design interviews were somewhat unforgiving. Tough luck if you haven't worked already at a company like, well, Facebook. After more than a week, the recruiter told me -- in recruiter speak of course -- that I was a terrible candidate and should think before applying again. Perhaps it's the process that needs work.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Jan 2017
Interview
Phone screening with a tough algorithm and coding questions, Interviewer is not satisfied with my answers. It took 45 minutes. Overall experience is bad. Need to have a good preparation before we give an interview.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (London, England) in Oct 2017
Interview
Initial phone interview followed by an on-site coding exercise.
Interviewer was nice, talked about my current role briefly before moving onto a leetcode medium question.
The exercise did not really highlight any of my skills or real world experience in my opinion.
If I had memorised some solutions from hackerrank or leetcode I would probably have passed easily.