Meta

Performance and Capacity Engineer Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California

June 1, 2015

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online, and within a few weeks a recruiter followed up with me to do an initial screen.

After the screening, I had a phone interview with a team lead for the performance and capacity engineering group.

After that phone call, they decided to fly me out to Menlo Park for a full day of interviews.

I met with six people at Facebook's main campus. Each interview was about 45 minutes and had a different focus:

Coding interview, where the goal is to come up with a solution as fast as possible (on a whiteboard).
System design.
Probability and statistics.
Culture fit.

Everyone I met was very pleasant and friendly, and the recruiters were quite helpful throughout the process, almost acting as a sort of coach.

Less than a week after the on-site interview, the recruiter contacted me to tell me they would be moving forward with other candidates.

When I asked for feedback, I was told I didn't perform well enough on the coding exercise (though I did solve both problems, but perhaps I wasn't fast enough?).

Questions

Given a sorted set of numbers, find the first sequence of numbers that add up to a specified value.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Meta Performance and Capacity Engineer role in Menlo Park, California.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Performance and Capacity Engineer roles in Menlo Park, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral25%

Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Performance and Capacity Engineer interview process in Menlo Park, California.

Meta Work Experiences

Fun but work

Performance and Capacity Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

November 2, 2021

Pros: A fun and energetic environment is good for young people.

Cons: Lots of work, so hard. WLB.

Performance and Capacity Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

November 2, 2021

Pros: A fun and energetic environment is good for young people.

Cons: Lots of work, so hard. WLB.

Awesome young company to work for

Performance and Capacity Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

December 7, 2012

Pros: Great environment, friendly co-workers, and very talented people.

Cons: Sometimes it's a bit too noisy around you, as people do or say whatever they want, whenever they want.

Awesome young company to work for

Performance and Capacity Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

December 7, 2012

Pros: Great environment, friendly co-workers, and very talented people.

Cons: Sometimes it's a bit too noisy around you, as people do or say whatever they want, whenever they want.

Collaborative Team, Steep Learning

Performance and Capacity Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: The team and manager are enjoyable to work with and very collaborative.

Cons: There's a big learning curve for all of the different responsibilities.

Collaborative Team, Steep Learning

Performance and Capacity Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: The team and manager are enjoyable to work with and very collaborative.

Cons: There's a big learning curve for all of the different responsibilities.

Fun but work

Performance and Capacity Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

November 2, 2021

Pros: A fun and energetic environment is good for young people.

Cons: Lots of work, so hard. WLB.

5.0
Fun but work
Performance and Capacity Engineer • Current Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
November 2, 2021
Pros: A fun and energetic environment is good for young people.
Cons: Lots of work, so hard. WLB.

Awesome young company to work for

Performance and Capacity Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

December 7, 2012

Pros: Great environment, friendly co-workers, and very talented people.

Cons: Sometimes it's a bit too noisy around you, as people do or say whatever they want, whenever they want.

5.0
Awesome young company to work for
Performance and Capacity Engineer • Former Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
December 7, 2012
Pros: Great environment, friendly co-workers, and very talented people.
Cons: Sometimes it's a bit too noisy around you, as people do or say whatever they want, whenever they want.

Collaborative Team, Steep Learning

Performance and Capacity Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: The team and manager are enjoyable to work with and very collaborative.

Cons: There's a big learning curve for all of the different responsibilities.

5.0
Collaborative Team, Steep Learning
Performance and Capacity Engineer • Current Employee
August 5, 2025
Pros: The team and manager are enjoyable to work with and very collaborative.
Cons: There's a big learning curve for all of the different responsibilities.

Meta Interview Questions

Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses

Given a string with parentheses, determine the minimum number of parentheses you must remove to make the string valid. A valid string has balanced and properly nested parentheses.

StringsStacksTwo Pointers

Valid Word Abbreviation

Determine if a given abbreviation is valid for a given word. An abbreviation can contain digits representing the number of skipped characters.

StringsTwo Pointers

Binary Tree Vertical Order Traversal

Traverse a binary tree and return a list of node values for each vertical line, ordered from left to right. Nodes on the same vertical line should be ordered from top to bottom.

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