I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)
Interview
Got approached from internal recruiter via Linkedin.
The first interview was a phone interview with the recruiter asking typical HR related questions to gauge my interest.
Followed with a half-day onsite (had the option to do via video call but I preferred not to) having 2 one hour interviews with product managers. The first interview was with 2 product managers (one of the them mostly listening in) and the second interview was with 1 product manager. Questions were typical whiteboarding, what-if product related scenarios which I enjoyed.
I think I did fairly well although I was ill at the day having slept very little so I underperformed and I felt there were areas I could have done better in. I left feeling 70% positive I would move to the next stage.
I waited for a couple of weeks to hear back but I never did so after following up with the recruiter a few times, he told me that they wouldn't proceed further and it took long for him to get back to me because it was 'close'! I had asked to receive further feedback and I never did. The recruiter never called me back (even if we tried to schedule time) and additionally when I asked 'well can you at least give me a few feedback points via email' I received nothing. Really negative experience which I didn't expect from a company like Facebook
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe how you would build a product for people who want to save money?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jul 2017
Interview
I applied on the Facebook careers website. A recruiter reached out; talked to me about my interests and why I was looking to join Facebook. Followed by this, I had 2 video interviews: one on Product Sense and one on Execution. Each was 45 minutes long. Within 1 day, I was invited to a in-person loop at Menlo Park. I had 3 interviews: Product Sense, Execution and Leadership. Within 1 day, I got a rejection. Please note that Facebook does provide very detailed interview feedback. I had excellent written feedback for the video interview round. I had poor feedback on the in-person Product Sense interview: the interviewer felt that my solutions did not take into consideration the company's mission/vision and objectives. Also note that 4 out of the 5 interviewees were female PMs.
Interview has several stages:
1- phone screen with a recruiter
2- Product sense
3- Product execution
4- Product leadership
There are numerous written articles on Product sense and product execution questions. Make sure you think through FB products and consider how to improve them using a methodical approach.
First clarify the question, consider metrics, think through the problem by incorporating your interviewer’s hints.