Working at Facebook as a senior engineering leader
Working at Facebook as a senior engineering leader
Empowerment, culture, infrastructure, autonomy, impact, and competition.
Much of the internal mythology about the company's culture isn't really true anymore, now that the company has grown to more than 20K employees.
It's still a great place to work, but because the reality doesn't match the speeches, it often leaves people feeling betrayed and disillusioned when FB turns out to just be a large tech company.
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Director of Engineering
The interview process was a five-stage process. These stages included: * Technical * Behavioral * Architectural * Meeting the team * Overall review and feedback The hands-on coding assignment was a little contrived and very similar to th
Senior Software Engineer
Tree question. Couldn't give tips at all. Interviewer was disconnected and condescending for each reject in 45 minutes. Really terrible candidate experience. There have been few good experiences with Meta.
Data Engineer
First is the recruiter round, then a one-hour technical interview which included questions around SQL and Python. After that would be behavioural and other technical rounds. Other technical rounds would cover system design, etc.
Director of Engineering
United KingdomFebruary 28, 2023The interview process was a five-stage process. These stages included: * Technical * Behavioral * Architectural * Meeting the team * Overall review and feedback The hands-on coding assignment was a little contrived and very similar to th
Senior Software Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United StatesNovember 15, 2025Tree question. Couldn't give tips at all. Interviewer was disconnected and condescending for each reject in 45 minutes. Really terrible candidate experience. There have been few good experiences with Meta.
Data Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United StatesNovember 12, 2025First is the recruiter round, then a one-hour technical interview which included questions around SQL and Python. After that would be behavioural and other technical rounds. Other technical rounds would cover system design, etc.
