Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington
Process
- Behavior/Past experience
- Ninja
- Lunch (not rated)
- Design
- Ninja
The behavior interview is about 1 hour, focusing on your past and current experience and projects. It includes a 15-minute coding test.
The first Ninja session is an opening question where you create your own question based on a scenario and then code it. My experience was really good, allowing flexibility to design questions I was familiar with.
Lunch was a chat with a senior team lead. It was a relaxed opportunity to ask questions.
The Design session was easy for me, as I had worked on a similar system in my current job.
The last Ninja session really sucked. The question involved a really unconventional event processing model using a "pulling" instead of the standard "push" model (like Storm). The interviewer didn't talk much and was unhappy when I proposed a much simpler and intuitive push model. I failed on this one.
Questions
The second ninja (coding) test was about an event processing system using a pulling model, which literally no one in the industry is using.
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Meta Work Experiences
- 4.0Learning Culture, Impactful ProductsSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesMay 20, 2016Pros: 1. Great culture 2. Lots of things to learn 3. Could make impactful products 4. Reasonable benefits 5. Traveling benefit to MPKCons: 1. Pretty hacky in building products sometimes. 2. Management are nice but not very experienced.
- 2.0Lots of Growth Opportunity, Terrible Infrastructure and DirectionSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesJune 26, 2022Pros: * Top-of-line benefits * Opportunities for rapid growthCons: * Incompetent Senior Leadership -- particularly the CEO and CTO * Short-term Strategic Mindset * Focus on chasing $$ over building excellent products/experiences * Weak motivations for teams to maintain/improve existing products, so tooling and infrastructure are unreliable.
- 5.0Love My Job!Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 24, 2015Pros: Culture, culture and more culture. The first thing you will notice as a new employee at Facebook is the multitude of social events, both in office and offsite. There is always something fun to do that helps you engage with coworkers that you may not have come in contact with in your normal workday. I truly enjoy my coworkers and find myself hanging out with them even for non-Facebook events; it's great!Cons: It is a very fast-paced environment, and it takes time to really find that work-life/personal-life balance.
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