I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Interview process took 2+ months from initial phone call with recruiter to finally getting an offer.
- Recruiter Phone Screen: Go through all the basics, understand why you want to work for Facebook and potentially go through some other positions that may suit you. In the end, you agree on the position you want to pursue and then learn about next steps.
- Phone Call with Team Member: Spoke with someone in the same role I was pursuing. This was about 2 weeks after the phone call with the recruiter.
- Onsite Interview: Went to FB HQ for 4 meetings (30 min each) with different team members and manager. This goes by quick.
- Hiring Manager Video Call: Two weeks after onsite, I get notified that the team wants to move forward and just need to speak with the hiring manager.
- Pre-Offer Notice and Reference Check: Couple days after my phone call with the hiring manager, I get a call from the recruiter letting me know that they plan on offering on the condition that my references have been checked.
- Offer: This was a week and half after initial contact in regards to references. The offer is pretty formulaic and from what I was offered, FB does make an effort to take care of their employees they want. I couldn't be happier!
The interview process is very fair at Facebook and they are pretty organized in setting up interviews and give you details on how to prepare for them. There are no trick questions to worry about but every question is designed to test how you think.
Applied and got an email for a phone screen. Thought the phone screen went well. The call took about 30 minutes and it was the standard questions. Got a rejection the next day
It’s like a stripped down version of a PM interview. Focus on prioritization questions and teamwork questions. Easy SQL question. “How would you design a queue system for a restaurant?”
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
“How would you design a queue system for a restaurant?”
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
Interview was okay in difficulty. The annoying thing was that everyone was reading a script word for word. Like literally you can see them read the script during the interview. The interviewers didn't have the ability to articulate their own thoughts, just stuck to the script. Sometimes my responses already addressed what their script's follow up question asked..and yet they asked it again and it made things really awkward. Avoided a bullet though as this company is now on its way to self-destruct.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL test, a lot of 'tell me about a time when' questions, and projects you've worked on
Product Specialist applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Product Specialist roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 31 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Product Specialist according to 31 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 32%
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 14%
Skills test: 14%
Background check: 8%
Presentation: 7%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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