I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2024
Interview
I was interviewing for a Data Scientist internship position in January 2024. The first interview was mostly basic pandas/SQL, the interviewer was very friendly and helpful. I got the news that I got to the next round the same day.
It took a while for Meta to schedule the next interview though. My interview was cancelled/postponed 5 times in total. Sometimes, the interview would cancel the interview less than 24 hours in advance. When these cancellations were happening, the hiring manager (they are outsourcing the hiring operations to another company in India) would not respond to my questions about the date of the next interview. Since the hiring person never responded to me, I had to forward all the questions to the recruiter. My 2nd interview then ended up being 1 month away from my 1st interview.
The second interview was just product sense. The interviewer was a bit late and not as welcoming as the first interviewer. In general, when asked about working at Meta, he mostly said it was busy, didn’t mention any positive aspects. After the interview, the recruiter got back to me saying they’d follow up with their decision by the end of the week. They did not. Every week the recruiter would email me saying that they need more time. They eventually rejected me 5 weeks after the 2nd interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to merge data frames? What is the difference between different types of merges? Investigate a dip in users of a new product (don’t remember exactly)
Case analysis on product sense questions and technical question involving SQL. Recommend focusing on product sense and SQL leetcode as questions may be mediums with possibility of easy. Also recommend to prepare to give a structured answer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Product sense questions revolving around meta products
First round scheduled with 45 minutes video call with a interviewer. Case study and sql is going to be tested. Another 45 minutes with more statistics questions if passed first round.