I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in May 2018
Interview
Got contacted by the recruiter on Linkedin. I was not actively looking for a new job but was just curious about their interview process so I responded. The recruiter did a quick phone screen asking about my background and gave some info about the role. She then scheduled a technical interview with a data scientist.
The technical interview questions were pretty similar to what are mentioned on Glassdoor. First part is some sql questions where he typed the sample data and asked me to write queries to get the answers. The second part was a series of product related questions about facebook videos and groups.
I agree with others that the interview process feels a bit impersonal. The interviewer looks like he was just performaing a routine and demostrated no interests in my background. For example, he asked me to describe a recent project I worked on and gave zero reaction after my response. I feel like he also had the 'correct answers' in mind for the product questions which should be more open-ended. It doesn't seem like they are looking for the type of data scientists that you'd expect (someone with experience in machine learning, modeling, data engineer etc), since there are other teams for that. The analytics data scientists just support the PMs by doing a lot of sql. It should really be called a data analyst or product analyst role.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given 2 tables, one with the phone numbers that facebook sends the confirmation message to and another one with the phone numbers that confirmed the verification, write a sql query to calculate the confirmation percentage.
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.
It's all organized. Be prepared to showcase your depth of thinking. Two analytical rounds will make you think on your ability to solve probability and experimentation problems. Have a structure for everything
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