Is anyone planning to join Facebook London this year? I have an e5 offer but they wont let me start remote and i dont want to fly until covid settles. Are you planning to fly or have flown amidst pandemic for joining? TC: 210gbp
When they are asking you to join? @op
Join ASAP. They also can put me in paid leave for 2 months but then will have to travel afterwards. No idea if 2 months later will be safer to travel than now...
But it will be just joining and then you can come back and do wfh till mid next year. Things will not be that great even after 2 months for sure but every single day things are improving. So you can surely take a chance here. Where are you currently staying now?
There is nothing preventing you from flying to London. The airports are open and the flights are on time (and priced regularly, last time I checked). You not wanting to fly is your personal choice. You can't expect Facebook to give you free employment because you don't want to get out of your house, sorry bro. And yes millions of people are flying in Europe at the moment - about 60% of last year's peek.
Thanks for your perspective.
210? Are you including signon?
Are you from Uber Amsterdam and what’s your Uber TC?
Yes
Didn’t Fb announce wfh until June next year or so?
No
I heard they did. Not sure though
I think it's fair that you don't want to travel. I don't either and no one at Facebook is traveling for work. The issue is probably regarding taxes but maybe you can escalate this. Did you talk with the recruiter only? Ask to talk to someone that can approve work from other countries.
Yeah done that already. It’s a tax and compliance thing apparently
I will be relocating from Canada to London. Not that I have an issue but they are not allowing remote onboarding.
Are you planning to do that soon or wait out until things settle (which tbh god knows when)
I am planning to move next month
Hi there, I'm having my "onsite" interview over 4 weeks. Currently preparing like crazy trying to recycle my algorithms knowledge for the interview. The recruiter told me, 2 weeks ago, that starting remotely is fine. Since March they have successfully onboarded lots of people, sent equipment to their places, etc. It's weird, but it's working out, she said. I'm interviewing for a Machine Learning Engineer position with the interview breakdown as: 2 coding; 1 ML design; 1 System design; 1 Behavioural. I'm also based in the Netherlands, with 20 YoE. @OP, do you have a TC breakdown? I'm panicking a bit, have 3 kids and a job. So, preparing is being very hard. Is it okay if I DM you to get some ideas about the interview? You don't have to give me the questions, just the feeling you had. Thanks in advance!
Hi , What's your background? Have you been an SWE throughout? How did you apply for the MLE role? I am Data Scientist , is the MLE role a good fit or do they prefer SWEs? FB DS roles are analyst roles , not core DS.
Hi FreeCoupon, Most of my years of experience are SWE related, with focus on distributed and embedded systems. About 5 years ago, I started dedicating all my time to Artificial Intelligence, focusing on Deep Learning for CV and NLP. I forgot how many Coursera courses and Specialisations I did, including Computational Neuroscience and Calculus (to refresh everything). Been working as a full time AI Engineer (as I like to call it) for about 3 years now. My official title is, believe me or not, Sr. DS. lol To break it down a bit: I build DL models, sometimes a bit of traditional ML, in an end-to-end fashion, with serving and Docker in place, all cloud ready. That's why the AI Engineer thingy. I also talk to business about requirements gathering, priorities, etc. From what I saw in all the material Facebook sent to me to prepare for the "on-site" interview, the ML people there are Software Engineers who studied computer science. They know ML, build models and run them in production. There are people with more of a research background as well. I think here in NL (since you are based in Amsterdam), companies are still focusing in this segregation with Data Scientists doing 1 thing, most of the time on notebooks, some other people productionising it and yet other people running and maintaining the whole thing. I don't know how it is at Uber, but I can speak for other 3 companies I have worked for in the past. I did not apply, I was approached by FB via LinkedIn. Had a first screening (45min on the phone with someone from NYC). He said I was a strong fit for the position and then we moved on with the next steps. To be honest, I'm a bit rusty and studying like crazy to get this done properly. Just saw a post on LeetCode that gave me the chills. https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/823759/facebook-15-yoe-remote-aug-2020-reject How is your interview process going? Are you already in? All the best!
@op, where are you working now?
TC breakdown?
And yoe
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