So I think my recent experience with Facebook will make me refuse any future interview requests with them ever! So here is the long story. I was approached last year by a recruiter for a position of senior solution engineer. He talked with me for a while and verified that my experience fits very well into that (I have about 17 years of experience in several countries and in several FAANG companies and startups) The process took about 3 months until I reached the F2F phase. I had a loop of 5 interviews. I performed hundreds of interviews to many people in several countries when I was at FAANG so I guess I know enough to judge my performance in an interview and by far I put it in the top 3 interviews when it comes to my performance. I was walking out of that office 100% sure that I got the job to the extent that I started to plan when I will quit my current job, plan things, etc The interview was on a Friday. The recruiter told me that I will probably hear back on Tuesday or Wednesday. Worst case scenario, will be Friday. I sent him a thank you email after I left, didn’t get a response at all for it. Waited Tuesday and Wednesday and sent him SMS asking for a heart beat. Got nothing back So sent email on Thursday, got an auto response back that he left for his vacation and will be back after 10 days! Vacation?! Seriously?! Without telling me anything? So I tracked down the coordinator and emailed her to check for me, she got another recruiter and he told me that the team decided not to continue the process about two days ago (which meant that my impressions were 180 degrees wrong which was almost impossible) which meant that something went wrong very badly and worst, I have no clue what was it. So I needed to know what was it. He told me to check with my recruiter when he is back about more info regarding this (he actually volunteered that info because I didn’t ask him about details) I emailed my recruiter twice after that and got nothing back! Like my emails were going into a black hole! Super disrespectful from Facebook to treat a candidate like that! So the candidate didn’t pass? Well, let’s just treat him as garbage and never even reply back to his emails or bother giving him any feedback about why he wasted all what time with us or anything!
They did the same to me. Don't worry, move on
Sorry for your experience. Don’t make assumptions upon a whole company though. Shitty recruiters or managers or engineers are happen to get everywhere. We will soon identify that person and fire them.
Hopefully! That was extremely disrespectful
Although I am the last person to say anything good about booking, but believe it or not, even people who do TERRIBLY at interviews, get a call back to get the results and why they won’t get the job!
As per personal experience, each time I felt great after an interview - I did not pass, and the opposite. It FB is we see a candidate is not making it - we are trying to make interview experience pleasant for an interviewer, so the person is not getting too upset. I was sure I did not pass FB loop but got an offer.
Interesting. What is an example of something you’d say to end interview on a positive note?
They should atleast drop an email. I think it’s pretty common with FB to not reach out to the candidates with whom they are not willing to move further. I have had similar experience with FB and have read other posts here on Blind about same. Another thing I didn’t like about them was the recruiter deciding which role would suit the best for me instead of talking to me if I am interested in a specific role or not. I interviewed with them in June last year for iOS app dev and didn’t clear it. Was ready to wait for another year to apply again and instead I was contacted by another recruiter in Sept who was pretty much try to convince me that I could be a good fit for support and I should interview with them for the support role.
I've noticed (at all companies) that anyone who says they 100% got a job never gets the job. Anyone else notice this?
Regardless of that, an email is not too much to ask! And to answer your question, for me I never ever expected that I get the job or get refused and i was wrong. In the last 17 years never even once!
That's a pretty unrealistic data point!l, and you were wrong once as you just said. Yep the us is too litigious you cannot get a rejection email as it creates risk.
Facebook and Google are actually top 2 at interview process. If FB process looks bad to you, imagine how bad Apple and Walmart Labs will be.
My facebook interview experience has been pretty decent. Usually recruiter will always call back to let me know the results. I got an offer (finally) and they let me know the next day of the interview.
They called because you passed. It won’t be the same experience if you didn’t ;)
I failed 3 times with facebook. I know what i am talking about ;)
Tl;dr: op thought he is so smart that fb will trip on its way while sprinting to hire him. Then reality hit him from behind, and now OP is butt-hurt.
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