I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jan 2014
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter, and there were three phone interviews in total. It was overall a really positive experience - the recruiter was really friendly and helpful, and the phone interviews each lasted about 45 mins, with 15 mins for me to ask any questions I had.
I got an email from the recruiter asking if I would be interested in product design opportunities, and then there was a screening call in which she gathered some basic information about me, asked a few questions about my work experience and skill set, explained the interview process and answered any queries I had. Then a few days later I received an email scheduling the next phone interview.
The interviewer was a designer at Facebook - pretty friendly, and explained what he was currently working on, and then asked me what phone I was using. Then I was asked to put on headphones and keep the phone in front of me and answer very specific questions for about half an hour, about iOS settings, and methods of measuring user engagement, etc. There was also a hypothetical design problem given to me, and I had to then defend my design decisions and justify why I chose each interaction that I did.
The next interview was scheduled a couple of weeks later, and that was supposed to be a critique of my work - but it was pretty conversational, and basically an opportunity for me to explain recent projects that I had enjoyed most. And on a specific project, I was asked to explain at length my design process and UX decisions, and whether there was anything I would have done differently. This was also followed by a friendly discussion of the work culture, and I was asked if I had any questions. Didn't make it to the on-site interview (which would have been a presentation of work, followed by interviews with a panel of five people), but it was overall an enjoyable experience, having to think on your feet etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most interesting question: how would you design a mechanism to reply to text messages from within the iOS lockscreen notification itself?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2014
Interview
A group of Product Designers came to my school and I got the chance to get my Portfolio reviewed by one of the Designers, she liked my work and few days later I got an e-mail asking if I would be interested in a formal job interview with Facebook.
It was a two-hour phone interview with to different Product Design Managers.
First interview was about my own work, and the key there is to know the in and outs of your work, you have to be able to defend all your design choices.
Second interview was about a random Mobile Application, I got the Twitter Mobile Application, the key here is to come up with a solution for some of the features, or missing features, and backup your possible solution with data. Here they are really trying to find out how you think, and how good you are finding multiple solutions to a certain problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Finding a problem on the spot to a mobile application like Twitter that is used by millions of people a day and has a huge team working on it every day to make it perfect.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Aug 2014
Interview
Got in contact with a lead designer, who referred me to a HR Recruiter.
I interviewed over the phone with two designers and then flew into Menlo Park for a set of onsite interviews. The time at menlo was nice, they covered expenses and took good care of me.
All in all, the people were very friendly, and the process was well explained.