Product Engineer Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California
Process
I made it to the phone screen round, and the interview was pretty straightforward.
As a data engineer, do NOT use LeetCode to practice coding questions.
I can't remember much of what I was asked, but you need to be solid in SQL, especially tricky questions that may require self-joins.
You also need to be solid in Python DSA, with many questions revolving around dictionaries with list and string manipulation.
You have 50 minutes for 5 Python and 5 SQL questions.
I got through 6 out of 10 total questions, but I just wasn't fast enough.
Questions
One Python question was to reverse an integer and, if it was negative, to return it as a positive.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Meta Product Engineer role in Menlo Park, California.
Success Rate
Meta's interview process for their Product Engineer roles in Menlo Park, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Product Engineer interview process in Menlo Park, California.
Meta Work Experiences
- 2.0Meta Product Engineer ReviewProduct Engineer • Former EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesJuly 24, 2025Pros: Good compensation. Free food. Moving fast.Cons: Moving too fast. You have endless work. You work 80 hours per week but still can't meet their expectations.
- 5.0Good pay, OK cultureProduct Engineer • Former EmployeeMenlo Park, California, United StatesMarch 10, 2021Pros: The position is prestigious with family and friends, with great TC and benefits.Cons: The politics can be pretty intense. It's easy to feel like a cog in the machine.
- 1.0An insane year of top-down decisions from out-of-touch SVPs. How is it we make every wrong decision?Product Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesAugust 10, 2022Pros: Benefits and pay are good despite stock price drop. It's a recession and I gotta stay for posterity :( Coworkers are passionate, smart, and cool. Immediate managers are easy to get along with and strong. You work on big things that your friends use.Cons: - Senior management is composed of literal boomers that don't care about the products that actually matter to people. - They won't take accountability for dumb decisions they pushed. - Dumb top-down decisions are extremely reactive to news and market movements, and there's an inability to commit to a plan for more than 4 months (????). - There is no more room for non-metaverse innovation. - The company has given up on the real bread-winning products except for the Facebook app, which they only care about for stonks. - "Move fast and break things" has just resulted in everything being broken. - You get credit for shipping something, not making it polished. Yay janky product goes brrrrrr onto the next thing.
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