Meta is not Facebook anymore
Meta is not Facebook anymore
Interesting products and brilliant people around. Interesting, challenging tasks.
That's no more old Facebook. Old hacker culture is ruined by aggressive hiring and then by layoffs. People are discouraged. "Efficiency year" means everybody has more work than before; teams are understaffed.
Interesting products and brilliant people are around. Interesting, challenging tasks.
Most people believe that any fault could be counted for the next layoff. The review process is toxic; all your faults will be taken into account. The "game rules" are hidden.
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Senior Software Engineer
A recruiter called me and asked a couple of HR questions. I scheduled a phone interview. The first phone interview was not hard at all. I implemented it with Java, but obviously it wasn't what the interviewer expected. Then came the second phone inte
Senior Software Engineer
They contacted me for the position. HR discussion was good. Technical interview was not a great experience. The interviewer had no understanding of the industry I was coming from, so there was a huge gap. Questions: 1. Print the following in HTML
Senior Software Engineer
Short talk with a recruiter, followed by a phone interview. The phone interview involved talking about my previous projects, why Facebook, and any concerns I had about the role. It then involved a coding question, which I've detailed below:
Senior Software Engineer
United StatesMarch 4, 2015A recruiter called me and asked a couple of HR questions. I scheduled a phone interview. The first phone interview was not hard at all. I implemented it with Java, but obviously it wasn't what the interviewer expected. Then came the second phone inte
Senior Software Engineer
United StatesAugust 1, 2013They contacted me for the position. HR discussion was good. Technical interview was not a great experience. The interviewer had no understanding of the industry I was coming from, so there was a huge gap. Questions: 1. Print the following in HTML
Senior Software Engineer
London, United KingdomJune 1, 2014Short talk with a recruiter, followed by a phone interview. The phone interview involved talking about my previous projects, why Facebook, and any concerns I had about the role. It then involved a coding question, which I've detailed below:
