Candidates applying for Product Manager roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Product Manager according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Jul 2017
Interview
Contacted by recruiter a few weeks after applying online. Initial phone screen with recruiter covered why I am interested in facebook and a short product case interview question about how I would design "friend search" from scratch. I didnt do a great job answering this qurstion, nevertheless i was invited to a follow up video interview. Next step was two 45 min video interviews: one about product sense, another about execution. The recruiter was very engaged throughout the whole process. He provided a guideline prior to the video interviews to explain the format of each. This enabled me to prepare, which was great because the questions were rather abstract. He also reached out to me a few days before the interview to see if I had any questions.
1st interview: product sense
How would you build "video home" on desktop?
2nd video interview: execution
Go back to 5 years ago when the like button on facebook was a simple feature. How would you improve it? During our discussion the interviewer asked the following questions: What would be your goal for this feature? What metrics would you identify to measure your goal? Define the metrics precisely - what would you measure exactly? How would you test the feature to determine if it is successful? This was a tough question because I was naturally inclined to explain the solution that already exists on facebook today, which is the feature with with emoticons that allows users to express of they are happy, sad, angry, etc. It would have been easier to have been asked to design a feature that didn't already exist. Overall the interviewers were professional, courteous, and asked questions that I felt reflected the skills needed to build innovative features on facebook. It was clear from the interview that I wasn't the right fit for Facebook.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how would you design the video homepage on desktop
I had a phone call with a recruiter. She was very friendly but seemed to be rushing her questions too fast. Not sure if that's a strategy at Facebook or not, but it didn't make me feel comfortable.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
Fairly straight forward and clear. Interviewers are ok. Cleared the video but failed on on site.
Execution is analytical. Product sense can be vague at times. Leadership was purely behavioral.
HR is very slow. I also they they don't care to inform if you failed. I understand they have a ton of people and can't respond but atleast to onsite people, after promising to send a feedback within 3 hours. Horrible HR. Cannot believe why FB can't fix this.