Engineering Manager Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California
Process
The questions are for the Engineering Manager role.
This is the Stage 1 interview – a video call with another Engineering Manager at Facebook.
After clearing Stage 1, there are 6 additional rounds.
Questions
Talk about your work experience in the last year.
How do you manage the career growth of your team?
What do you look for when hiring for a team manager role?
Have you ever fired anyone for low performance?
How do you handle promoting someone as a manager?
How do you communicate technical project needs with non-technical teams?
Talk about the high-level system design of a specific project.
What things were done to scale the system?
Using load balancers for Memcached servers.
What type of testing strategies can be used to test features?
Looking back, what would you have done differently on the project?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 14 interview experiences for the Meta Engineering Manager role in Menlo Park, California.
Success Rate
Meta's interview process for their Engineering Manager roles in Menlo Park, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Engineering Manager interview process in Menlo Park, California.
Meta Work Experiences
- 5.0A great place for challenging work that impacts the whole worldEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesAugust 7, 2022Pros: Work will reach billions of users. Talented people everywhere.Cons: Challenging space with a lot of negative press. But people are heads down executing to change this.
- 5.0Best company everEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesAugust 4, 2017Pros: Great culture. Awesome leadership on all levels.Cons: Horrible commute, but the shuttles are nice.
- 5.0Facebook is an exceptional company to work forEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesNovember 13, 2012Pros: Everything at Facebook moves incredibly quickly, which makes it a very exciting place to be. There are also a ton of smart people there, and I feel like I'm constantly learning new things from my coworkers.Cons: People generally work very hard. This is by choice (people are generally excited about what they are working on and trying to ship stuff quickly), but it does mean that there's a fair amount of peer pressure to work hard, and it's easy to feel like there's always a little bit more that you could be doing.
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