I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2025
Interview
Standard process, a screen and then on two 45 minute interviews. The first was engineering architecture, and the second was behavioral.
Overall, it was quite surreal. The technical interviewer was a junior manager that had a lot of trouble articulating the details and constraints of the problem. At one point I gave him the option: either you tell me the details of the problem you want me to architect and I'll do that, or we can spend the rest of the time working together to illuminate the problem.
He of course chose neither.
In the end, he said that he was interviewing not for ability, interest, or collaboration but for preparedness. If you were not able to rattle off a complex architecture verbatim, he was not interested in you as a candidate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a recommender system for users at Facebook.
Fully remote interview, unfortunately with no opportunity to visit the office. Screening was with a recruiter. 1:1 interviews were with senior team members with each covering a different subject matter area.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions delved deep into subject matter expertise.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Nov 2024
Interview
1, Recruiter screen
2, Leadership Behavioral IV - be ready with stories on your leadership XP in the STAR format
3, System Architecture Design - Grokk and be confident in your decisions. You will be asked to clarify and defend tradeoffs.