Working conditions vary by team for contractors. I lucked out with the HR company I worked for and availed of many benefits that the Facebook FTEs had:
Excellent for early career workers looking to gain a breadth of hard and soft skills and experience in a variety of areas: project management, auditing, tech, business ops, data analysis, etc.
-Ethically dubious actions by Meta caused an almost constant stream of internal controversy and debate. -Authoritarian corporate structure is… awkward, to say the least. -The business model is highly inequitable, pitting extremely well-compensated Facebook direct employees with much less well-compensated contractors. -Facebook makes it very hard for (largely Black, Brown, and women-dominated) contractor workers to organize due to the presence of multiple contracting agencies and byzantine NDAs. -There are lots of barriers to advancement for non-FTE/contractor employees.
The recruiter was friendly and professional. There were two technical interviews: * One was a code challenge. * The other was an infra-related discussion. The interviewers were nice. I stumbled, but it was a positive experience.
To begin the interview, the interviewer told me what they do at Facebook and asked me to tell them about myself a little bit. I elaborated on a recent project I had been working on. Because of a shortage of time, no more personal questions were aske
It was a pretty standard interview process for big tech. First, there was a tech screen with two questions in 45 minutes. The full loop included: * 2 coding interviews * 1 machine learning system design interview * 1 behavioral interview
The recruiter was friendly and professional. There were two technical interviews: * One was a code challenge. * The other was an infra-related discussion. The interviewers were nice. I stumbled, but it was a positive experience.
To begin the interview, the interviewer told me what they do at Facebook and asked me to tell them about myself a little bit. I elaborated on a recent project I had been working on. Because of a shortage of time, no more personal questions were aske
It was a pretty standard interview process for big tech. First, there was a tech screen with two questions in 45 minutes. The full loop included: * 2 coding interviews * 1 machine learning system design interview * 1 behavioral interview