Don't join unless you need a brand or plan to stay forever
Don't join unless you need a brand or plan to stay forever
People are generally smart. Great benefits (free food, laundry, charging, etc.). Great compensation package. PSC is overall objective, in my experience.
PSC drives people crazy. Everyone optimizes for PSC or performance of the current half.
Internally, there is big chaos. Tools are in general not reliable.
Many (majority?) teams work on trivial things, just copy and paste PHP code from the codebase (hard to believe, but literally so).
On-call can be very bad, depending on the team.
Code quality is bad in general, people just patch new features. You become a lesser engineer after staying for a while.
Other than title, people don't really grow. Projects are trivial in general. There is no fundamental difference in capability between E4/5/6.
The company mission is really just to waste more of your time to maximize ad dollars.
The longer you stay, the lesser a chance you have to leave, as you know near zero about non-FB technologies, and you learn near zero about internal technologies other than as a tool user.
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The initial technical screening interview involves solving a medium-difficulty coding problem. The interview lasts 45 minutes and includes two programming tasks. Algorithms and coding skills were assessed.
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A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. After a chat about my interests and experience, we set up a phone screen. The phone screen was as described by the recruiter. It was 45 minutes long. After being called, we jumped right into two coding ques
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The interview process was of medium difficulty. You can find most of the questions they ask on LeetCode. I would do the top 25 by company. Good luck at the interview!
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Los Angeles, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2021The initial technical screening interview involves solving a medium-difficulty coding problem. The interview lasts 45 minutes and includes two programming tasks. Algorithms and coding skills were assessed.
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United StatesMay 1, 2019A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. After a chat about my interests and experience, we set up a phone screen. The phone screen was as described by the recruiter. It was 45 minutes long. After being called, we jumped right into two coding ques
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California, Maryland, United StatesJuly 25, 2025The interview process was of medium difficulty. You can find most of the questions they ask on LeetCode. I would do the top 25 by company. Good luck at the interview!
