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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Mar 2019
Interview
Was initially emailed a list of questions to answer for a recruiter. Afterwards, I was sent an email regarding a technical video interview. We had the video interview over Zoom, where the interviewer had questions prepared for me, one technical SQL question, and one business-related question. The SQL question was on Notepad, so no way to check my answers by running the process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical question that involved self join and group bys
What would be a good click rate to aim for?
1: tell me about yourself and why DS?
2: tell me about your Data Science experience/project, more analytics side?
3: If 10% decreasing in the post(FB, Instagram), as DS, what would you do?
1) how would you improve notifications?
2) how would you get Facebook users to download Instagram?
A recruiter reached out to me through email, and we setup a phone interview for the following week.
During the the phone interview, I could barely hear the recruiter talking. I barely heard his explanation of the role and the team. I had to ask him several times to repeat his questions. The interview went very fast (under 13 min). Overall it was a frustrating experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are Facebook products you are familiar with?
You noticed there is 20% decreases in FB product users, what would you do to correct that?
SQL Questions
Make sure you learn about A/B testing.