Is it possible to skip phone screen at Facebook? Previous coworker who is now at Facebook is willing to refer me with strong feedback.
If you worked here before maybe. A phone screen should be easy and fast, why do you need to skip it?
yes, I skipped without a referral though they may have seen previous referrals in the system from prior failed attempt. I'm guessing if they see a good company on your resume and you mention that you are interviewing elsewhere then they will let you skip
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It is possible. Referral won’t be enough in my experience regardless of rank of referrer.
Yes, they will skip it for strong candidates. Ask your recruiter.
I skipped it. I had an onsite before. I didn’t even ask for it.
Why bother the interviews are going to be the same stuff. Besides if you live near by you can usually have your “phone” screen in person.
Yes can skip with referral. Agnostic of company it's always good to avoid phone screen IMO if possible. Individual interview perf is high variance so if you do a screen you have a significant chance of bombing out immediately. But if you just do an on-site you can recover from messing up an interview.
Try to skip it. My phone screen was a LC super hard obscure question and the interviewer was setting me up to fail. Obviously did not get it.
Or they wanted to see if you could at least come up with a brute force solution to an unfamiliar problem, so they could watch you work and talk about design and engineering practices, and you panicked because you were expecting a quiz.
I think it depends on the interviewer. I was given LC hard. The brute force is O(n^2). I gave a decent solution in O(n log n) which is practical within 45min, but the interviewer insisted that I find the optimal O(n) solution. I did it but it was a ridiculous ask.
It's possible under a couple circumstances. If you have interviewed onsite before, and had more than half the people that interviewed you vote hire, if you have a strong reference and background, if you're from Google.
yes it is possible, but not sure if strong referral is enough