Video Interview with Oculus
Hello! I have a 30 min video call interview with Oculus next week. Seeking advice on questions that may come up in the phone interview especially advice for walk me through a time... Thank you
How are you meeting with? Is it just the recruiter or an EM / SDE?
Is this for SDE, TPM, PM or something else?
What if the guy interviewing you reads this thread
Exactly! Not a far fetched idea.. Haha!
Is the interview in VR?
Imagine interviewing with HoloLens.
Oculus team is quite clueless, I would not go there
Apple where are your AR lenses? Yup, now go sit down
This is a cheap shot. Apple should wait till the display lens technology matures a bit more before they design one... with Oculus go watching Netflix is a much poorer experience than watching it in a 50 inch 4K TV, then why would I watch it in a VR headset if the experience sucks.
Walk me through a time when you posted on blind asking for help with interview questions?
I have interviewed with them before...they asked me some of the following: 1. Draw me the design for an earbud (Draw the hardware that goes into it in a circuit or block diagram) 2. We have data from xxx that shows a drop in users of facebook. How would you go about figuring out what attributed to the drop? (Know mean, median, mode. Know standard deviation and how that affects the data. Also the answer turned out to be geographic location. There was no change in std deviation in time....but they expanded to new geos. That means no or unaccounted outliers). 3. Oculus related questions about how to expand market and user base OUTSIDE OF GAMING. I did not have a great experience interviewing tbh. It was very bro-ey. Might be different now.
Your statistic examples did not make sense, not relevant to the question.
To give more detail it is better if I just explain via DM. The question is "given any data set you ask for (because you know fb has the data), please explain why there was a dip in sign ups during x amount of time." If the median number of sign ups is the same across several days in a month and the standard deviation is the same in a given month (A vs B) of sign ups across different demographics such as age, projected income level, etc...you know it is a causal relation when you control against those variables and not just a correlation. If the standard deviation stays the same, that means you do not have a big difference between months in outliers. With a control on these variables that come from demographic data, you can start looking for causal relations. If you split data by ethnicity/race and geographic location, you can start to find new patterns that point to variations in data that give you a confidence interval of 98 percent. That means it is 98 percent probability that it is causal. The dip in sign ups is revealed to be a geographic location, not a general worldwide trend. Knowing the difference between those terms will help you sort through the BI data they give you during the interview. They want to know you know how to assess causality vs correlation. You need to know not to look for mean (since the data sets can have outliers) and how to control for your other variables. For example, if the standard deviation changes significantly from your group A vs B, you know your data set has some variable that was not controlled due to new outliers in data. This is standard A/B testing. It is a prerequisite for many PM and PMM roles. The question tests your knowledge and understanding about A/B testing. An understanding of statistics is required to prove causality.
Also oculus is NOT A MONEYMAKER. It is high risk on that team. People get laid off when they do not produce a positive revenue. At the time of my interview, I asked them if they were net positive yet and the answer was "no". Do not take that job if they are still bleeding out money.....the offers from oculus are also lower than facebook as a whole. So keep that in mind.
DM me for more details. I can give you my honest experience, including onsite interview
Hello, could you please share your experience with Oculus phone screen and onsite. Me too have an interview set up for a digital design engineer role. Thanks for your help.
Walk me through a time you designed something similar to an Oculus Quest.
Welp. Guess I should cancel.
You got screened already in your resume; unless you are totally clueless, give it a try