Production Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington
Process
I had a call with a recruiter for a basic screening, followed by two technical screening interviews.
Each interview was about 45 minutes long. The first focused on coding, and the second on troubleshooting.
The coding portion was the most complex, involving one relatively easy data structures question and another that required describing how to handle standard output.
The interviewer for my coding session was not looking at the screen for much of the time. He was smiling and laughing, as if he were reading Reddit. He also corrected me several times with incorrect information.
Questions
How would you read the standard output of an application and print a line when a particular field changes?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Meta Production Engineer role in Seattle, Washington.
Success Rate
Meta's interview process for their Production Engineer roles in Seattle, Washington is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Production Engineer interview process in Seattle, Washington.
Meta Work Experiences
- 3.0Not what I expectedProduction Engineer • Former EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 14, 2025Pros: - Impactful projects - Smart colleagues - Pay was great, especially as stock went up - Entertaining meme cultureCons: Culture is changing rapidly, becoming more top-down. Good PSC reviews require great technical delivery and role performance, but you won't get a good rating from performance alone. I have seen PSC used for political retribution about 50% of the time. It's the first job I've seen this level of blame game and backstabbing. IC6+ can do whatever. Great for them, but there is very little accountability in my org. It was common for them to burn IC4/IC5 by coercing them to follow bad "advice" which ended up backfiring. Three people left my team after getting burned in PSC this way, with no repercussions to IC6+ at all. Some teams have a high on-call load. I was on 24/7 on-call 50% of the time at worst, and being on several on-call rotations is common. There is very high team attrition; the team fully turned over every 1-2 years.
- 4.0Best WLB of all the top 5Production Engineer • Current EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 15, 2025Pros: - Good projects and growth opportunities - Good team and collaborationCons: - tumultuous workplace culture - dishonest leaders
- 3.0Toxic Culture, Smart ColleaguesProduction Engineer • Current EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesJuly 22, 2024Pros: A lot of autonomy, smart colleagues.Cons: Meta is a real-life simulation of the Hunger Games. Toxic culture, backstabbing, and incompetent managers.
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