I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me to schedule a brief screening call. This was followed by:
1) a 45 minute first interview with a current employee on product sense and SQL;
2) a day onsite with 4 components:
1) product interview (can you reason about facebook's products?);
2) technical analysis (lots of SQL);
3) analytical (questions about AB testing and the properties of the binomial distribution);
4) applied data (general reasoning about data problems);
3) A follow-up SQL interview
Throughout the interview process, I realized that this was more of a business /product analyst role than a data science role, since the main focus was on SQL queries and stat101 probability questions (e.g. "what's the variance of the binomial distribution").
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you explain a confidence interval to a business-person?
Total 7 rounds: first round for resume screening, second for technical screening, then for on-site virtual with 4 interviews back to back, then hiring manager round after team matching and then salary negotiation with HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Meta’s evaluation rubrics focus heavily on "Product Thinking over Fancy Math". Interviewers want to see if you can operate like a product owner with an analytical mindset, navigating messy scenarios affecting billions of users
The Interview Process is very structured -
First Tech Screening round - 45 mins (usually can extend a bit depending on the interviewer)
- 2 SQL Questions ( Medium to Hard ) - based on Joins
Full Loop - 4 rounds 45 mins each.
- SQL
- Behavioral
- Analytical Execution - stats & prob, A/B testing, case study
- Analytical Reasoning - Case study
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on Bayes Theorem, Probability distribution, etc.
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Completed 3 rounds of the process, which includes the initial recruiter screen, technical, full loop, and team matching.
Couldn't move past the full loop interview. The interview was very engaging, and I actually enjoyed working through the cases. No crazy questions.
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