The interview panel universally lacked people skills. They gave off strong vibes of arrogance and seemed to focus on the minutiae and binary outcomes of questions rather than looking at the subtext of the candidate.

Essentially, Meta's interview process optimizes for hiring those who overly prepare for the typical tech interview, rather than those who would actually perform well in the real world. At scale, there's enough overlap between these two groups that it can still result in a decent employee base, but many unnecessary false positives and negatives too.

Every interviewer, save one, lacked people skills. One joked about firing a lot of people. One was 100% robotic and inhuman in their behavior. This gave me a horrible impression of the company. Unwarranted self-importance plus zero interpersonal skills is how I would describe the average interviewer.

I would never work here in a million years.

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