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:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 33%
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Recruiter screening which is short, recruiter basically asked about background and technical skills, then shared a bit more about the interview process.
Then a video interview about product and coding. The SQL question is not difficult, but I feel like the interviewer is looking for an exact same response with the correct answer rather than letting you make some mistakes along the way and then correcting it. Product questions are around whether you will launch a feature or how to improve a product, again, even if it is claimed that they are looking more at your thought process than the actual answer, I feel like the latter is what they care about in the end of the day. I guess it is understandable given that so many people are applying for the position which is not too technical, their bar needs to be high.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
I received an unprompted email from a recruiter and after learning what the position was I agreed to interview. The first step was a 45 minute video interview where I was asked to write SQL code and answer a few case study type questions related to their products. The recruiter suggested I use R or Python instead of SQL for this step, but when I was asked the interview question it was very clear that SQL was the best choice of coding language to use. After this step I was brought on for an onsite which consisted of 4 different 30 minute interview rounds, each of which had a different focus (statistics, technical product sense, business product sense, and a SQL whiteboard coding interview). Recruiters were incredibly useful in providing information and preparing me for the interview. In hindsight I did not take enough advantage of the recruiters and the information they provided. I was treated really well throughout the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw a sample distribution of average daily views by users for Instagram.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Jun 2018
Interview
Internal recruiter reached out and scheduled phone interview. The phone interview was mainly behavioral. After the phone interview, scheduled a video interview. Video interview was more technical and used a screen share to demonstrate coding ability.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a new feature that may be useful in improving recommendations for an existing product. Walk through the model pipeline and how to test for its efficacy