I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn, then had a video chat with two live coding exercises and was invited for an onsite round with 5 interviews (4 of which were technical) in London.

The interviewers seemed poorly trained in representing the company and appeared disengaged during the interviews. They did not introduce themselves properly, did not seem to have read my CV beforehand, and one left without shaking my hand.

When asked how they felt about Facebook's recently announced pivot to privacy, one of the interviewers replied, "Oh, as I work for Oculus, I don't care about that."

The choice of interview exercises was fair and appropriate to the position. From the detailed feedback that was passed on to me by the recruiter, it seemed that the evaluation was granular and clearly trying to be objective in assessing the candidate from multiple angles. The feedback was so granular that the recruiter would point out individual questions I had asked my interviewers and would comment favorably on how this reflected certain facets they were looking for. I found this slightly creepy.

My overall impression was that people in engineering positions do their assigned job and otherwise zone out, without caring much about the actual impact of the work they are doing. The work-life balance seemed to be great; the engineer assigned to me during the lunch break said that every day she arrives at 10 am and leaves at 6 pm.

Very standard questions during the behavioral interview, standard coding and system design questions during the technical interviews. Really no surprises in terms of topics, which I think is a good thing.