I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jan 2021
Interview
45 minutes of in-office network but in a video conference.
Asked various questions about networks,
Classics/"traditional" questions.
If you're hands-on with TCP/IP for few good years or learnt by the book, it works.
Interviewer was very nice. Answered my question in the end regarding large-scale push notifications techniques.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the various NAT types,
How does each type work ?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Sunnyvale, CA)
Interview
Pretty straightforward. I interviewed for the PE University Grad role. The first round was mainly a basic coding round and a PE basics round. Once I passed that, there was a loop of 3 interviews - System round (focussed on OS concepts), another coding round and a behavioral round.
I had two screening rounds and 3 interview loop rounds, Meta leetcode questions, systems design can be extensive. Questions can be repeated so look out for all the available questions online. Systems debugging is a very important topic
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Meta?
What are different internet web protocols
talk about internet.
Recuriter round then technical screen with an engineer that then final stage which is four rounds, 2 coding 1 system design and one behavioural, for Production Engineer the questions are often a mix of LC questions and practical file system operations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reading input from file
BFS/DFS Basic Graph problems
Production Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 74% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Production Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 190 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 Production Engineer according to 190 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Presentation: 8%
Background check: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Other: 1%
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