Research Scientist I applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meta in Feb 2024
Interview
I had one screening, one onsite consisting of two coding, two system designs, and one research and experience round.
My coding rounds went well. Each interviewer asked 2 questions. Research and experience round was good. The first SDI round went well but the second one was very bad.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For the second SDI round, I was asked to design a Dropbox. The interviewer kept asking how the chunking of large files take place.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
7 rounds of interviews. One presentation, three research design, one coding, one ML basics, one behavior. Coding is basically leetcode coding questions and ML basics are just like review basic machine learning concepts such as metrics, PCA, kmeans, knn etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to jailbreak an LLM and how to defend such jailbreaks
Recruiter reaches out, arrange 5-6 round of interviews, you get to know if you can move forward after each round. Overall quite straightforward and self explanatory.Overall quite straightforward and self explanatory.