Facebook interview and hiring for experienced (13+) candidate

Feb 27, 2017 18 Comments

I have a FB on-site coming up. I know they usually hire for non specific role and then assign team after boot camp. is this the same process for someone with 13+ years exp? The recruiter gave me a few projects that kind of align with my experience..but still mentioned bootcamp..so does that mean team members from those projects would interview? would questions be related to my resume or general SW engineering? my experience is both in embedded SW and servers side stuff(earlier)

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  • Amazon
    Gra1

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    Gra1
    You'll get a bunch of inexperienced kids asking generic coding questions. Just so you know, your background matters shit.
    Feb 27, 2017 8
    • Facebook / Eng
      LOL shirt

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      Typically interview coordinators and managers look at whether the generalist loop would be a good way to evaluate the candidate. For someone who's worked on the Linux kernel all career long, we're probably not going to get great signal asking a distributed systems question.
      Feb 28, 2017
    • Zulily
      VTfu07

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      VTfu07
      If you are over 30 you get "customized" questions, lol.
      Mar 1, 2017
  • You will be pretty much "pre-allocated". You still need to do bootcamp for 6 weeks. And you will miss that bootcamp period :) You don't need to worry about the bootcamp. There are many senior 35+ years old engineers like me. Just focus on passing the interview. I was also from a semiconductor company like you.

    Ask recruiter about the interviewers' names. Then you will know which team/group would interview you. There will be at least one general coding but definitely your background will be tested. Ask more details about the onsite interview: coding, behavioral, your domain etc.
    Feb 28, 2017 3
  • Zulily
    SKgJ61

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    SKgJ61
    What do the check for in behavioral ?
    Feb 28, 2017 1
  • Zulily
    SKgJ61

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    SKgJ61
    What did they ask you in the phone screen ?
    Feb 28, 2017 1
  • Apple
    uvQe24

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    uvQe24
    You need to make sure that the recruiter gets you a well suited interview panel. I've been told that for embedded people the design question can be rich when it comes from ML or distributed computing folks, and there are not many people that are fit for asking design question to specialist / embedded people.
    Feb 28, 2017 0