I applied online via a referral to a different role (Partner Engineer), but was rerouted and interviewed for a Software Engineer – New Grad position in Washington D.C. in February 2018. These jobs are coveted, so I understand there is a lot of volume. However, I was never contacted by a recruiter about the intent to interview for a different role instead.

I ended up interviewing because, at the end of the day, I was trying to get in the door, so I didn't even bother to ask why I was now interviewing for this new role instead. I had a phone interview with a manager from an Engineering team.

I had a virtual call with a live coding test for about 45 minutes. I thought my solutions were at least acceptable to pass a virtual call test, but I recognize there's a standard of quality I didn't show in my code. It's hard to be personable over the phone, but the whole thing felt very dull and transactional. The interviewer honestly didn't seem to care about my past work at all and seemed to ask those questions redundantly. The conversation felt very impersonal in general.

At the end of it, I did realize I had never applied to Facebook with the intent of this role to begin with, so I know I wasn't the best fit when it came down to it. I sort of felt that I was blatantly ignored by the company and siloed off immediately to a New Grad position with no communication about the reasoning.

Encoding a binary tree is one I specifically remember. Some other data structure/algorithm stuff as well.