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Accepted OfferFacebook 2014-09-18 10:07 PDTInterview
phone interview starting with introducing yourself followed by two code questions.
The first coding question is very standard coding question and the second one is
a little more related to facebook's certain functionalityContinue ReadingInterview Questions
- None 2 Answers
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No OfferPositive ExperienceFacebook 2020-03-09 12:46 PDTApplication
I applied online. I interviewed at Facebook (New York, NY (US)) in March 2020.
Interview
A recruiter contacted me over email and set up a phone interview for the following week for a 15-minute call. I guess next round would have been with a hiring manager
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- PLEASE DON'T TAKE THE PHONE SCREENING LIGHTLY! I did and got rejected. I was expecting SQL questions and in general talk about my resume but she asked me a question on product sense and I was completely unprepared for it. Creation of Facebook user groups has gone down by 20%, what will you do? sounds simple but I messed it up so badly. I was just blabbering anything in an unstructured way, I sounded so stupid and not even fit for a small company forget Facebook. The recruiter was nice and she did not say anything but I were to hear my own answer, I would reject myself on spot. I regret it so much wish I could have prepared for it. I hope someone sees this and it helps them.
The SQL questions were easy and I did answer them correctly- what kind of joins to get only common rows, what the natural sorting order etc. 6 Answers
- PLEASE DON'T TAKE THE PHONE SCREENING LIGHTLY! I did and got rejected. I was expecting SQL questions and in general talk about my resume but she asked me a question on product sense and I was completely unprepared for it. Creation of Facebook user groups has gone down by 20%, what will you do? sounds simple but I messed it up so badly. I was just blabbering anything in an unstructured way, I sounded so stupid and not even fit for a small company forget Facebook. The recruiter was nice and she did not say anything but I were to hear my own answer, I would reject myself on spot. I regret it so much wish I could have prepared for it. I hope someone sees this and it helps them.
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No OfferPositive ExperienceAverage InterviewFacebook 2020-05-21 20:11 PDTApplication
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Facebook.
Interview
Telephonic Interview: 30 mins SQL and 30 mins coding.
Expectation: 4/5 in SQL should be correct and 3/5 in coding should be correct.
Most of the folks have already explained this process in detail so will jump on the interview questions.Continue ReadingInterview Questions
- want you to write me a simple spell checking engine.
The query language is a very simple regular expression-like language, with one special character: . (the dot character), which means EXACTLY ONE character (it can be any character). So, for example, 'c.t' would match 'cat' as the dot matches any character. There may be any number of dot characters in the query (or none).
Your spell checker will have to be optimized for speed, so you will have to write it in the required way. There would be a one-time setUp() function that does any pre-processing you require, and then there will be an isMatch() function that should run as fast as possible, utilizing that pre-processing.
There are some examples below, feel free to ask for clarification.
Word List:
[cat, bat, rat, drat, dart, drab]
Queries:
cat -> true
c.t -> true
.at -> true
..t -> true
d..t -> true
dr.. -> true
... -> true
.... -> true
..... -> false
h.t -> false
c. -> false
*/
// write a function
// Struct setup(List<String> list_of_words)
// Do whatever processing you want here
// with reasonable efficiency.
// Return whatever data structures you want.
// This function will only run once
// write a function
// bool isMatch(Struct struct, String query)
// Returns whether the query is a match in the
// dictionary (True/False)
// Should be optimized for speed 6 Answers - Given an array of integers, we would like to determine whether the array is monotonic (non-decreasing/non-increasing) or not.
Examples:
// 1 2 5 5 8
// true
// 9 4 4 2 2
// true
// 1 4 6 3
// false
//1 1 1 1 1 1
// true 9 Answers - Calculate the average word length.
For the given set of words return the average word length. 3 Answers - products sales
+------------------+---------+ +------------------+---------+
| product_id | int |------->| product_id | int |
| product_class_id | int | +---->| store_id | int |
| brand_name | varchar | | +->| customer_id | int |
| product_name | varchar | | | | promotion_id | int |
| price | int | | | | store_sales | decimal |
+------------------+---------+ | | | store_cost | decimal |
| | | units_sold | decimal |
| | | transaction_date | date |
| | +------------------+---------+
| |
stores | | customers
+-------------------+---------+ | | +---------------------+---------+
| store_id | int |-+ +--| customer_id | int |
| type | varchar | | first_name | varchar |
| name | varchar | | last_name | varchar |
| state | varchar | | state | varchar |
| first_opened_date | datetime| | birthdate | date |
| last_remodel_date | datetime| | education | varchar |
| area_sqft | int | | gender | varchar |
+-------------------+---------+ | date_account_opened | date |
+---------------------+---------+
Question 1:
What brands have an average price above $3 and contain at least 2 different products?
Question 2:
To improve sales, the marketing department runs various types of promotions.
The marketing manager would like to analyze the effectiveness of these promotion campaigns.
In particular, what percent of our sales transactions had a valid promotion applied?
Question 3:
We want to run a new promotion for our most successful category of products
(we call these categories “product classes”).
Can you find out what are the top 3 selling product classes by total sales?
Question 4:
We are considering running a promo across brands. We want to target
customers who have bought products from two specific brands.
Can you find out which customers have bought products from both the
“Fort West" and the "Golden" brands? 3 Answers
- want you to write me a simple spell checking engine.
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Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceDifficult InterviewFacebook 2020-05-09 22:50 PDTApplication
I applied online. I interviewed at Facebook (Menlo Park, CA (US)) in May 2020.
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COVID-19 Interview Experience:
Since I had a great resume (ex-Lyft, ex-Airbnb, ex-Segment), the recruiter scheduled a virtual onsite by skipping the technical phone interviews. I asked the recruiter to give me 4 weeks before the interview so that I could prepare for it. Here's what I did:
Coding: I solved ALL the medium problems on Cracking the Coding Interview book. I also solved 20 Medium and 5 Hard questions on Leetcode. Also booked 2 chesky.ai interviews a week before the interview.
System Design: Didn't really prepare much since I have a ton of experience as a senior engineer.
The interview lasted for about 5-6 hours. It was surprisingly not too overwhelming. I definitely prefer this style over onsite interviews tbh. The only downside was the system design portion. I had a whiteboard facing the camera so the positioning was rather odd.
For folks that are interviewing virtually (I guess everyone right now?), GET A WHITEBOARD and face it in front of the camera. Trust me. You'll appreciate this advice :)Continue ReadingInterview Questions
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Declined OfferPositive ExperienceAverage InterviewFacebook 2020-06-12 19:12 PDTApplication
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Facebook (Sunnyvale, CA (US)) in June 2020.
Interview
I interviewed for the Market Specialist, Measurement Team position via video call. First call was with the recruiter. We talked about the position and it was very casual and fun actually. I was only asked one question which was, "Tell me about your current job and background and what you're doing".
The 2nd interview was supposed to be with an actual employee, but due to complications with scheduling, I instead interviewed with the Hiring Manager. This was definitely very pressuring. Overall though, it wasn't too bad, just make sure to really practice and have clear examples from your work experience. Also make sure to stay relaxed so you can answer the question clearly.
If you do move on to the next stage, it is a 3 back-to-back interview process. The 3 topics of this last interview is with the Hiring Manager and 2 other people individually:
1) Market knowledge - know your market enough - what are top 3 violations groups,
2) Critical thinking skills - not really much about FB but several case studies to know your logical thinking and analytical thinking. Prepare to answer case study questions.
3) Talking with manager - career path. Make sure motivation is aligned with role. Test understanding of role and career path moving forward
The best tip I received was to make sure you have clear, great examples for each bullet point & description of the job posting.
As a Market Specialist for Facebook, you should pretty much be very aware of trends in your area.
I want to thank Glassdoor because all of the questions on Glassdoor for this role were asked in my 1 on 1 interview. Make sure to read and practice everyone else' posts on here.Continue ReadingInterview Questions
- Tell me about yourself, give me a headline about what you do Answer Question
- What is your understanding of this role? And what motivates you about this position? 2 Answers
- Questions about the market. Asked me about North America Market: How do people abuse trends in your market? Give examples. Answer Question
- How do you identify is a user is under 13 years old? Since we have a rule for under 13 users. Answer Question
- What are some potentially abusive trends in your market? Give examples. Answer Question
- How do you identify if content posted on Facebook should be allowed? 1 Answer
- How do you work in teams? Or how do you work in deep collaboration? 1 Answer
- Tell me a time you faced a difficult situation and how did you overcome it. 1 Answer
- What are some of the groups that are facing hate speech in your market? Or what groups in your market could face abuse from current trends? Answer Question
- How do you work cross functional teams? Give me an example. Answer Question
- This role deals with graphic content. Are you okay with that? How do you feel about seeing graphic content? Answer Question
- Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceEasy InterviewFacebook 2020-08-02 10:49 PDT
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at Facebook.
Interview
First round was a HackerRank, second was a phone interview with a Facebook University Alumni who asked mostly behavioral/experience-based questions. Overall really smooth process where you don't have to worry too much about not having enough experience - as long as you're passionate you'll be fine!
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- What is your proudest accomplishment? Answer Question
- Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceAverage InterviewFacebook 2020-07-30 13:49 PDT
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at Facebook.
Interview
Was contacted by Facebook through career center.
Just 1 interview with 2 questions. Finished in 30 minutes and talked with interviewer who TAd the same course I was TAing at the time. Very friendly.Continue ReadingInterview Questions
- Threading a BST 1 Answer
- No OfferNegative ExperienceDifficult InterviewFacebook 2020-07-23 22:30 PDT
Interview
Uninterested disengaged interviewer that didn’t know anything about me or my area of expertise - wasn’t sure why I would be talking to them. Made me feel like doing the interview was the least of his concerns for the day
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- Spiral through a 2d matrix 1 Answer
- No OfferPositive ExperienceFacebook 2020-07-23 14:53 PDT
Application
I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at Facebook.
Interview
It is a 45 min video interview, asking a few pre-determined questions. It is a 45 min video interview, asking a few pre-determined questions. It is a 45 min video interview, asking a few pre-determined questions. Overall, the process is enjoyable.
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- spatial coherence and temporal coherence Answer Question
- No OfferPositive ExperienceEasy InterviewFacebook 2020-07-22 15:45 PDT
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at Facebook.
Interview
I was contacted to receive a phone "conversation" instead of going straight into the phone screening interview. The recruiter was great and very insightful. I will conduct the phone screening interview followed by a virtual "on-site" interview. Haven't received an offer yet
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- She asked me very tailored questions based off of my personal experience. Answer Question
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