Candidates applying for Project Manager roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Project Manager according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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The interviews are designed to be challenging - you're going to be asked to drill deep in a particular area or change course (depending on whether you have already covered enough ground or if it looks like you're stuck). Definitely look at Glassdoor for representative questions and practice ahead of time. I enjoyed this process. The Product sense and product execution interviewers let me know they would be taking notes and would interrupt me from time to time. That made it easy to take it in my stride.
It took them over a week to let me know of the outcome since their debrief meetings kept getting postponed. The recruiter kept me informed throughout the process so I was aware of what was going on.
My sense of the culture from the interviews was, they definitely look for a certain type of attributes in the types of PMs they hire - think fast on your feet, highly articulate and succinct. They certainly screen heavily for those attributes/characteristics. If you can nail that during your interviews, you will do well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Execution - FB decided to launch Reactions? How would you measure success? How would you test?
Prod Sense - Design a social travel product
Execution - How should FB grow registrations?
Prod Sense - Pick a product that you like. what do you like about it.
I did a phone screen, but never heard back from the recruiter. They seemed interested only in experience working on consumer software. One question was what areas of the product you are interested in. They require mobile experience to work on instagram.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Los Angeles, CA) in Apr 2017
Interview
Recruiter was constantly "super busy" and after three weeks was able to get a schedule for phone/video interviews. Before hand I was given the areas that would be questioned, which was nice but ended up being more of a hindrance--more specifically it seemed like a distraction given the interviewers had their own answers/agendas in mind.
Both interviewers were friendly but felt very fake and when I asked a few questions to clarify and about the company it felt like they didn't care to be there. At the end of the interviews they seemed happy with my answers and scenarios but I was just not excited to be working with them due to what I perceived as arrogance.
The frustrating parts were the 1) slow process, 2) "you want to work here more than we want you to work here" mentality across the board, and 3)the lack of clear direction on what I would have worked on if I accepted the position.