Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Stanford, CA) in Mar 2016
Interview
0-Send a resume and wait for a Facebook Core Data Science team member to refer you for an intern position
1-Programming Questions and General Questions about PhD Work
2-Statistics Questions
3-Research Design Questions
All of the interviews were by phone. The interviewers came from a diverse set of disciplines and were quite friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1-Programming: Given data on Facebook members friending/defriending each other on Facebook, find out whether a given pair of members are currently friends.
2- Statistics: Very basic questions on treatment effects under various sampling schemes.
3-Research Design Question: How would you test whether having more friends now increases the probability that a Facebook member is still an active user after 6 months?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Mar 2016
Interview
Pretty straightforward interview process. Both the interviewer and recruiter were very respectful. First had a quick conversation with the HR after which she scheduled me for a phone interview. The interviewer was very courteous and asked me three questions. First question was expected outcome , the other two were SQL based. I think was a little slow in solving the questions, maybe that's why received a rejection ~ also pretty sure that there was a better solution to one of the questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two tables
Friend_request
(requester_id,
sent_to_id,
time)
Request_accepted
(acceptor_id,
requestor_id,
time)
Find the overall acceptance rate of requests.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Feb 2016
Interview
The recruiters were fairly straight forward about the process. I had two online interviews followed by an in-person interview in menlo park. Overall, people were nice-- except for the last interviewer. I just chalked it up to thinking that he speaks to *all* people in a very demeaning manner due to his mannerism.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Due to the NDA I had to sign, I will not mention key things. I was asked questions that tested my knowledge about SQL, business sense, and probability/math.