A Facebook recruiter reached out through LinkedIn. After an initial call, which went quite well, I was told things would be moving to the next stage for an on-site, face-to-face interview.

After this, I didn't hear back or get a response from the recruiter for a few months. However, when I reached out to another contact within the resourcing team at Facebook, I finally got a response and things started moving again.

After a bit of a break due to COVID, I finally had my virtual on-site interviews. These were split as 3 technical and 3 management interviews, spread over a number of days via virtual calls.

I was very impressed with this leg of the process. Facebook makes a strong effort in setting up candidates for success by having a dedicated touchpoint in the resourcing team and providing lots of great material to help prepare for the interviews. This is something I haven't experienced with Amazon, Google, or Microsoft interviews.

The on-site F2F interview focused on team/people management, using situation-based questions, followed by an architecture walkthrough of a past solution.

The virtual on-site interviews concentrated on specific skills/areas. I had two system design, coding, growing people, leadership, and delivery execution interviews.

Although the initial touchpoint wasn't great and I didn't receive an offer, the whole experience was a positive learning opportunity.