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Frontend Engineer Interview Experience

January 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process is somewhat lengthy. There was an initial phone interview, followed by a scheduled coding interview, which led to a final lengthy (5 hour) multi-interview set. The interview questions are highly technical. If you're solid on computer science fundamentals and/or enjoy solving complex, convoluted questions, you will probably do well. The questions I was given were frustrating for me, as my engineering strengths lie in larger architectural areas. I was given no questions about architecture or anything - my questions were all in the same format: "Given this input, create a function that results in this output." These kinds of questions, in my opinion, are not very useful in finding engineers that are flexible thinkers. They are really good at finding engineers that are extremely technical. All of the scenarios pitched for these interviews were the kind of situation that - if it ever did happen in real life - would be a one-time solution. As someone who has interviewed several people, I would never given this kind of question to interviewees because it tells me nothing about the way they will work on a real-world project. I don't need to know if they can write a function that muxes a string and an array of style tags into HTML, because even if they do, they will only have to do it once. That sort of problem is a short-term issue. It's way more important to know how they will approach a multi-faceted issue. All engineers can brute-force their way through a utility function, and all experienced engineers can detect and fix issues in utility functions. That's 5% of the work they do. The other 95% is focused on planning and designing. So that's my feedback. I've interviewed with Facebook twice and felt the same way both times. If you think of yourself as more of a design-oriented architect type, I don't know if this is the job for you. If they ask again, I'll decline.

Questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 15 interview experiences for the Meta Frontend Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Frontend Engineer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive73%
Neutral13%
Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Frontend Engineer interview process in United States.

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