I applied through the career website. After a week, I received an email from the recruiter asking for further information about my education and experiences.

After submitting the necessary documents, she didn't reply for the next fifteen days. I sent a reminder and received a positive reply.

She conducted my first interview, which lasted about 15 minutes. She asked me questions related to my motivation and experiences, as well as some systems administration and networking questions.

After that, she was unresponsive for the next three weeks. I again sent a reminder regarding my application and received a positive reply.

My next round was a coding interview. The recruiter asked me a few questions related to my CV and then presented two coding questions:

• File parsing and sorting
• Checking if a host is up or not

It was a very disappointing experience. The interviewer was unclear on some questions and appeared to be doing other things while I was coding. From the outset, he seemed rushed and did not allocate proper time for me to code, nor did he discuss proper test cases for the programs. He simply presented the questions in the text area and asked for my approach. He did not run my code or check it syntactically or logically.

After an hour, I received a rejection. I still don't understand what he was expecting from the coding round or why I was rejected. My entire process took around two and a half months, during which only two interviews were conducted. I am thoroughly unhappy with Facebook's recruitment process.

1. File parsing and sorting

2. Check if host is up or not