I have been through an HR screening and product manager interview. Here is how it went:
HR phone screening was very informative. HR was responsive and very helpful.
Following HR screening, I was scheduled to have a phone interview with a product manager. PM called me 10 minutes late, apologizing that he was not sure if the interview was confirmed or not. He said that he didn't have a chance to review my background. Well, ok... And then he ended the interview in 25 minutes (it was scheduled to be 45 minutes), of which half of the time was spent in regular meet-greet-intro-questions. HR decided not to proceed further in the process. The feedback was that the interviewer had hoped to get more on product vision. I have been interviewing, hiring and building teams for years now and I am not really sure how anyone can assess one's product vision in a 25-minute phone interview. I found the overall experience very unprofessional and somehow disrespectful to the candidate (well to me…). I spent days prepping for the interview, reading even the Facebook developer documents to familiarize myself with the offerings of the company that I may not be aware of. So I expected a little more than a late-starting 25-minute opportunity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was no unexpected questions. Interviewer asked what Facebook should build next and why. Then probed with some basic questions.
Every single interviewer asked a puzzle question. The most complex was:
You're standing in a boat in a reservoir of water that is filled to the brim. There is a brick sitting on the bottom of the boat. If you pick up the brick and throw it into the reservoir, will the water overflow?
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2012
Interview
Standard interview practice of 2 phone interviews and then one day of 1:1 interviews. Phone interviews were fairly high level and covered innovation and product design. 1:1 interviews went much deeper on a variety of topics. Most were focused on problems/issues that each person was tackling in their job today, so these were very FB specific.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you change about FB today? Why? What benefits would that bring? What challenges would be involved?