Working at Facebook is an amazing experience of growth, learning, teamwork, and impact
Working at Facebook is an amazing experience of growth, learning, teamwork, and impact
Facebook's "move fast and break things" culture avoids assigning blame for reasonable mistakes, which is a wonderful thing. Teams actively avoid separating creation and responsibility, so you are actually responsible for code that you wrote. The engineers that I get to work with are amazingly skilled and good coworkers.
Tools and APIs change, and old systems are deprecated and removed. Part of the process of moving forward goes toward staying in place.
Get product and infrastructure teams in the same room with food and drinks more often.
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Software Engineer
Pretty standard. Just grind LeetCode. They basically want you to make zero mistakes and solve problems like a robot. They don’t really care about your thought process, just that you find the most optimized solution ASAP.
Software Engineer
The whole process took about two months. It started with a 30-minute recruiter call, then a 90-minute online assessment with four questions. I didn’t have time to finish all four, but somehow passed that round. The next step was a technical screenin
Software Engineer
Technical Phone Screen A 45-minute coding interview where you will solve one or two coding problems, focusing on optimal solutions, edge cases, and complexity analysis. Usually, more than two problems will be asked, and there will be follow-ups to t
Software Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United StatesNovember 8, 2025Pretty standard. Just grind LeetCode. They basically want you to make zero mistakes and solve problems like a robot. They don’t really care about your thought process, just that you find the most optimized solution ASAP.
Software Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United StatesOctober 1, 2025The whole process took about two months. It started with a 30-minute recruiter call, then a 90-minute online assessment with four questions. I didn’t have time to finish all four, but somehow passed that round. The next step was a technical screenin
Software Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United StatesSeptember 14, 2025Technical Phone Screen A 45-minute coding interview where you will solve one or two coding problems, focusing on optimal solutions, edge cases, and complexity analysis. Usually, more than two problems will be asked, and there will be follow-ups to t
