First interview was a short talk with HR. The interviewer asked some basic business oriented data analysis questions. For example, how would you measure the success of a new feature to engage users.
Second interview was with a data scientist via video call. He asked additional business questions, mostly KPIs for different scenarios, and SQL questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two tables with the following columns:
USERS
user id
date
time stamp
post id
user action
action details
POST_REMOVED_BY_REVIEWER
post id
date
time stamp
report the daily ratio of posts removed by reviewers out of the user reported posts (user action = report)
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
Incredibly smooth process - recruiters are super responsive and accommodating. I got updates regularly as well as plenty of support around the types of questions I would be asked in the interview.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2020
Interview
I had my first interview with Recruiter in February second week. I was asked general screening questions + SQL fundamentals + quick product question about Newsfeed. Don't take this round easily, you might be caught off guard.
Then I had my 1:1 video interview with a Data Scientist but the video didn't work properly, so ended being similar to phone interview. It was a Product design round, how would you develop <fill in any FB product>, metrics, experimentation basics
Then had virtual onsite with 4 data scientists. The format and focus was clearly given by the recruiter. From my perspective I did 3 interviews well but the last interview was bad. The main problem was video conferencing, we couldn't be on the same page as the interviewer asked something which I said 15 mins ago in a different context and tried connecting it. It would have been smooth if there a white board. It was difficult for me to talk to interviewer and write something on my note at the same time.