Research Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 4 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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three hour total. two rounds technical questions. one round research outlines. technical rounds were split between the topics of stats knowledge and coding capabilities. one-on-one for each round. different interviewing for each round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What research would you be interested in conducting on the team?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Mar 2022
Interview
Initial Round - Coding
Final Round - 3 Coding, 1 ML Design, 1 Behavioural
Coding questions were similar to Leetcode FB questions.
Facebook doesn’t require that you know any one particular language, but you do need to be proficient in at least one. Acceptable languages include: C/C++, Python, Java, and a few other mainstream languages. It’s best to pick the most comfortable language and stick to it.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Apr 2022
Interview
Overall, the interview process is quite nice and innovative. The first stage is a coding challenge and problem solving based on real-world situations, followed by research deep dives and other technical interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round asks to code for some problems related to combinatorics and probability theory.