I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
1) I was contacted by a FB recruiter. So they contacted me in the first place.
2) Phone screen with the recruiter. He gave many detailed information about which kind of questions could be asked at the interviews. I prepared a lot based on these information. Unluckily there was not coordination between the recruiter and the interviewers and one of the two interview had nothing to do with these information.
3) 2 remote interviews: Product design and Analytical interviews. The interviewers were more junior of the seniority of the role I was applying for. And this is already quite strange.
- the first interview was a normal product design questions. You can find all kind of info and books about them. Design a a new feature for FB in X space (X=eCommerce, Dating, Ads, etc).
- the second interview was a very generic analytical question (decide metrics for FB product X). Nothing unusual, but the experience was really bad: the interviewer was inexperienced, he didn't want to say anything else during the whole 55' of interview. No clarifications, no feedbacks. He was only making puzzled faces and asking again about the KPI I was proposing, as if she never heard of them, regardless of the reasoning behind.
The recruiter was slow to answer. Once he took literally 1 month to answer. Honestly, how is it possible to take 1 month to answer an email? Even just a follow up to tell me you'll be slow to answer would have be great in comparison.
I didn't pass, that it's not a big deal by itself, but I can't stop thinking that it was a huge waste of time: I didn't even have a proper feedback. Just generic words. When I asked for a real feedback from the interviewers so I could improve and learn, I had no answer.
In general, really bad experience. I don't think I'll apply again.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design a a new feature for FB in X space (X=eCommerce, Dating, Ads, etc)
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Standard process really. Just do you homework here and you know exactly what to expect! I had a phone interview followed by an onsite interview. The campus was great and it seems pretty much like you'd expect from a major silicon valley company. I'd definitely recommending prepping for this by looking at glassdoor.
I applied in-person. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta in Sep 2019
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me in July for my interest in facebook. I had given an interview last year and I think recruiter found my profile from there and reached out for a possible interview opportunity. It was a long and painstaking process and I wish I haven't accepted recruiter's interest in my profile. I had a pretty good experience with the facebook screening process last time but this time it was very unprofessional with a super disengaged recruiter. At the end it felt like a waste of my time.
After the initial discussion with recruiter she came back and wanted to schedule phone screening, I gave her three slots but she didn't come back till 3 weeks, after couple of follow-ups she got back saying she forgot to enter my details in the system and asked for 3 slots again. I gave her the 3 slots, this time she was kind enough to schedule my phone screening. I had back - back two interviews one on Product Sense and another on execution. I had pretty good interviews, specially the execution round went really well. From there on the recruiter took got 3 weeks to get back to me with results. It was such a slow process that it almost felt like a sham, I started this process in July 1st week and by end of September I had the results from phone screening. My efforts are better spent elsewhere
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Product Sense - Which product do you like?
How will you improve that product?
What will be the metric you will improve about the product?
How will you design improvement?
Product Execution - If you are uber eat product manager what metrics will you track?
If uber eat orders are down how will you track the root cause?