30-minute conversation with the recruiting team to discuss my qualifications and motivations for the role. I have over 15 years of experience and am already earning more than the budget for this position. However, I am happy with the challenge (over the monetary aspect) and will proceed to the next step.

A screening interview is scheduled next, with an analyst who is two years out of college and an SQL test. Neither of these makes sense to me. The test and interview seem geared towards hiring an analyst and seeking specific answers from a book, rather than discussing accomplishments, experiences, people management, and delving deeper into complex subject matter such as data architecture, platform design, and concepts.

If this is how managerial positions are hired, I am starting to doubt their leadership and operations (trimmed FB from my investment portfolio). I know many superstar managers and architects who have built world-class engineering teams, but they would fail at this same interview stage. A silver lining is that the recruitment team is great and responsive, and perhaps different FB teams have different hiring methods.

The percentage of companies with only 1 ad spend.