Hello everyone, I have one FB onsite interview coming month. How many behavioral rounds I can expect and how much is the weightage on behavioral. Last month I was rejected by Amazon, as my behavioral was bellow per though I solved all the coding questions.
Not crazy like Amazon. I would say 1/2 of a round about behavioral and career progression.
To me it was slightly different with above: It was pretty important, mine was whole round behavioral, and the follow up extra was also behavioral. It was critical to decide level. I failed to get E5 despite recruiter told me that I was very strong in technicals including system design. I thought behavioral was about showing myself to be a nice person, however after all I realized it was not enough and actually they judge my scope of responsibility by the way I was answering those questions. Not sure which level u r targeting, two cents are do emphasizing you did cross team work, drove multiple people do something, had conflict on a high level decision and resolved it.
This is good advice. Amazon does the same thing with the behavioral questions. They're also probably looking for evidence that you take initiative in general, because of the way that they measure performance.
One round, which may or may not be split with an additional coding problem; seems to depend on the level they're targeting you for (I interviewed there twice: my E4 loop had a split behavioral/coding round, but the later E5 loop had a purely behavioral round). It definitely carries some weight: my understanding is that the behavioral interviewer at FB is supposed to be the most senior on the loop, is trained/calibrated in all interview types, and drives the debrief discussion, similar to a bar raiser at Amazon. It's a person you should probably want to impress. I've also read plenty of stories of people having to do follow-up interviews for behavioral or being rejected outright because of it. In general: while Amazon is an extraordinary case among companies in this class (half the interview is essentially behavioral), you shouldn't take these lightly anywhere you interview--software at scale is a team game, so if people don't think they can or want to work with you, or if it seems your personality or style won't fit with the engineering culture there, you have a near-zero chance of getting hired no matter how strong your technical output is.
thanks for your advice
Nothing like Amazon. Out of 9 interviews I had, 0.5 was behavioral (one coding problem replaced with a few non-technical questions).