Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 1 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 Data Scientist according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Presentation: 33%
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Initial phone screen with a recruiter followed by a 45 minute phone call with another Data Scientist.
The Data Scientist I interviewed with was clearly another cog in the machine. He had quite a bit of an ego and his responses betrayed the fact that he is clearly into the little office political games behind played back at the headquarters. This is not a good look for the company or its culture. I don't care about your "internal baseball", as the interviewer put it.
The questions were fair but the attitude the interviewer gave at every step of the way was a huge turn off. There's no need to be smug or smirk at every answer being given. All sorts of red flags and alarm bells were going off in my head.
I've since interviewed with other companies who are a bit more empathetic during the interview process.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meta in May 2018
Interview
First i got a phone call from a recruiter, she asked a lot about my experience and asked some analytical questions related to the product. After a day i was called to come for one on one interview onsite
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL and product analytics. The SQL part is easy to prepare for, what you need to know very well is aggregation functions, join and union. The SQL questions are based on a real Facebook use cases. You get a table with all activities - id, activity type, typed content, user_id and cetra. What you need to do is to write code to calculate the number of reported abusive comments of some sort, and later to provide the percent of reported content per day which are actually abusive by combining another table.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Feb 2019
Interview
1. Phone screen with HR, 15min
2. Technical video interview with Senior Data Scientist
The process lasted for month but very efficient when in progress. Interviewer was nice and gave me some hints during the SQL coding part.