I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2017
Interview
The person came in online 5 minutes late, not even mentioned his name. Also, a different guy showed up from the one recruiter mentioned (I did look up online before for a picture) and on top of that recruiter modified the interviewer twice. The interview was so mechanical, not testing the smartness at all. It was like - I ask a question, you give me an answer, just the answer I have on my sheet - not a creative one.
For the god sake, ask some smart questions and help the candidate to express their real skill and bring in or analyze the candidate's creativity. This is only regarding one DS Manager I interviewed with, maybe other facebook folks are not this weird.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2017
Interview
Was contacted by university recruiter. Very drawn out process, took several weeks just to get 2 phone screens in. First screen was technical, all SQL. Second was basic a/b test question, that I did not pass. Interviewers did not seem particularly engaged.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Londres, Inglaterra) in Nov 2014
Interview
First quick skype call, with general analytics related questions + little sql exercise.
Second round in person. A round of five separate interviews at Facebook HQ in Euston, each with a different flavour, some more general analytics/BI, some more technical (e.g. coding exercise, sql etc).
Some interviewers were very approachable and easy to talk to, some others much less. There was one case when I honestly thought the person interviewing me had something against me or was upset for some reason, as their behaviour was very rude and confrontational. I am a very peaceful person usually so I let it go.
Probably Facebook asked some random employees to come over from their HQ in the US to do these interviews in change of a little paid vacation in London. I suppose some of them were affected by the jet lag more than others.
Overall it was a good experience; it looked like the day was very well organised.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Imagine we see a lot of users filling up a form but not submitting it, why would it be the case and how would you use data to finding it out?