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Hello Blind, I recently interviewed, negotiated, and accepted an offer from Facebook, and I decided I would document my experience for others. TL;DR: Location: #Seattle YOE: 7 Old TC: $145k New TC: $235k I previously interviewed with FB for EE in Austin ~2 years ago, had an onsite, and then a follow-up phone interview after the onsite, but ultimately didn't get an offer. I was contacted out of the blue by a recruiter in early April for a Production Engineer role. I was slow to respond throughout the entire process since I already have a job I enjoy, so the timeline may seem skewed. The initial screening took two tries cause of technical issues with one of the interviewers (mid-May and late-May). Initial screening was coding and Linux systems. I've never used LC, so I can't tell you if the coding question was on there. After my phone screen was a success, my recruiter (based in MPK) handed me off to a different recruiter (based in SEA) since I am not interested in relocating to MPK. The SEA recruiter wanted me to spend two weeks preparing for the loop, which I spent precisely 0 seconds doing. The virtual onsite loop was with 4 PEs and a PE manager; coding, networking, systems, design, and soft skills (manager). The coding one was pretty straightforward. The first Q was stupid easy, and I did that in less than 5m. The second Q was also easy, and I had a solution within 10m. The third Q was more difficult, but I had an answer within 20m, after which the interviewer asked me to solve with extra constraints. I feel I aced the design part, which was to distribute an xMB file to yK machines. My loop was the second week in June, and my recruiter got back to me exactly one week later with good news. #Facebook #Offer Position: Production Engineer IC4 Base: $155k RSU: $65k/yr - $260k total Bonus: 10% TC: $235k Sign: $0 After a week of deliberation, I was able to negotiate a $30k signing bonus. I received a link to start a background check with HireRight within the hour after signing the offer. The background check completed within a week and shows online Facebook manually adjudicated any discrepancies. After the BG check cleared, I was able to log into Workday and fill out some new-hire paperwork. My start date is July 27. Equipment arrived July 17 via FedEx. The onboarding portal also updated (and emailed me) same day with instructions to join my noob groups but they won’t let us in until the 27th.
How did you login to workday? Mine BG check is complete but i am still not able to login to workday. Joining date is 20th July
On the onboarding portal, there's a workday link with instructions to reset your password. It did not work the entire time my background check was pending, but the day after my BG check cleared, I tried it with my personal email and it worked.
Some of tasks for my Background check are not completed because of courts closure here in NJ. But i signed a waiver for the same, i will try again today to check.. but my task for workday is showing completed in portal somehow..
Congrats OP! Wish you the best of luck :) Im in the process as well and have a few questions. What was your timeline from verbal to written offer? Could you elaborate on which kind of BG check discrepancies FB adjudicated? I can send you a DM instead if you’d like! Thanks!
from verbal to written took <24h, and <48h to get back with an updated offer after I asked for a SO bonus the only flag I had on my bg check was I put the wrong year on the last date I was in school (off by 1 error). I didn't put a phone number for one of my prev. employers and they didn't even try to contact them, HireRight just asked me for a W2.
Oh gotcha, thank you for the timeline! Congrats again. And oh wow, so looks like they don’t verify titles or if you’re eligible for rehire or anything like that, just that you worked somewhere?
How hard were the systems and networking questions? What resources did you use for studying or did you already know a great deal about Linux beforehand
The systems part was easy. The interviewer gave me a scenario (I think it was increased response times for an application) and I walked through step-by-step how I would investigate it. Reviewing how commands like iostat, lsof, and the ilk work would have been really helpful but I did not do that. For networking, I had a prior background in network eng, so that was mostly me shooting the shit with an old-school network engineer. My biggest recommendation here is to study up on layer 2/3 networking with a little bit of layer 4. Know TCP and UCP and at least one other protocol.
Thanks on this info.... from an Aspiring PE
Location?
SEA = Seattle
And I thought OP meant south east asia lol
Congratulations! And thank you for sharing your experience!
What’s production engineer? Like IT
They're like heroes but without capes. They remind me of DevOps mixed with System Development Engineers. But I've never met one in real life. They're legends round hea’
But 99% of these SREs and PEs would switch to SWE in the blink of an eye. 😂😂😂
Congrats! Thanks for sharing your experience. Good luck on your new role.
Man you must by really smart to crack it without prep. I attempted E5 for PE in Jan and didn’t get offer after on-site .. you must be in ever ready mode for interviews lol .. all the best !
How was the interview like? Was the coding questions from LC ? or it more aligned to log parsing & Scripting?
Awesome information thanks for the details! So at what point in the process did you contact your current employer that you will be leaving? And how did it work virtually? Like gave 2 weeks over email?
I have yet to do that. I currently work for a small pre-seed startup with <10 heads, so leaving is a delicate process. My two-week deadline is coming up quickly.
Congrats on the offer. BG check, is that the signing bonus?
thanks. BG check is just a bad abbreviation of background check.
I like your username, Amazon. lol.