Good company, too many failures, mostly boring work
Good company, too many failures, mostly boring work
Facebook is used by everyone, and this is incredible. The Menlo Park campus is really cool and has a great vibe.
- Great benefits
- Smart people
- Impact on millions of people
I joined Facebook a few years ago because of the agility of the engineering team. Back then, it was true. Today, not as much.
- Most projects fail due to over-complication and over-engineering
- Smart people are hampered by a large, inflexible codebase
- Very hype-based culture (thing X is the new hotness, everyone on board!)
- Most of the code is old and not owned by anyone, yet still in production
- Most work is very mundane and not very exciting
Stop being so impatient for "impact" - some projects take time and need nurturing.
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Applied online and received an invitation for a phone screen the following day. The phone screen was 45 minutes long and consisted of two LC-style questions. The interviewer was very nice and generous with tips.
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Initial recruiter call, followed by a coding assessment (different from LeetCode-type questions, with pre-defined levels of questions where each level unlocks after all test cases are passed), a phone screen, and a virtual on-site interview (3 coding
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I applied online. The recruiter reached out to me. We had one phone screen and then a panel with four rounds of interviews. The panel was scheduled in two days.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 22, 2025Applied online and received an invitation for a phone screen the following day. The phone screen was 45 minutes long and consisted of two LC-style questions. The interviewer was very nice and generous with tips.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 2025Initial recruiter call, followed by a coding assessment (different from LeetCode-type questions, with pre-defined levels of questions where each level unlocks after all test cases are passed), a phone screen, and a virtual on-site interview (3 coding
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 2025I applied online. The recruiter reached out to me. We had one phone screen and then a panel with four rounds of interviews. The panel was scheduled in two days.
