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I recently interviewed with Meta. I thought I nailed both screening interviews. I have done more than 100 mocks and prepped a lot so I know what I am talking about when it comes to product management interviews. Now the recruiter is telling me that I didn't even clear the screening interviews. Last time I interviewed with Meta (just before they started laying off people like crazy) I was not even good at interviewing and I cleared the screening interviews with ease. What am I missing here?
competition maybe? a lot of ex faang applications for each role. you might be the best, but do you have the best creds?
then why interview me. if my creds are not good enough for your company and you are only looking for ex-faang person.
at meta interviewer is not the person selecting resumes
As an interviewer I look for actual experience. After years of exp I understand when someone is making a story up, or when what their talking about comes not from experience but from a script. Mock interviews are great to make you at ease with the type of interview you're going to do, not to give you the right answers to the interviewer questions. Just fill the gaps of your experience. Don't give up, eventually you'll make it.
The hiring bar was much lower pre-layoff (which is why you did well and why meta did layoffs). The bar is higher now and you are competing against people who are likely much more experienced or talented
this is a very condescending argument. you work at meta, so you and all the people who are at meta got in through a very low bar process? so by your own logic itself, most of the people who are ex-faang are not talented enough. first they got in through a low bar process and second they got laid off. i get it I work for a company that is not the best in the world, but you can do better while making an argument.
I am not here to to get into an argument or anything.
Meta has some of the shittiest PM interviewers. A lot of luck involved in who you get. Mine happened to be riding on a high horse without the credentials and brains to back up the attitude. He was someone who could barely form a coherent sentence but somehow became a Meta PM and an interviewer. He was someone I could run circles around all day. I verified my response with a Director of PM at Meta and they said my response was perfect. The interviewer just happened to be a dick.
Overprepared and may have sounded scripted.
I am just giving up on this. If people are looking for a job and are interested in your company, they will prepare. What exactly are people supposed to do. How is this a bad thing. Yes, I had seen the questions they asked in the interviews. Everyone has. They keep asking the same questions again and again. During the interview, I made sure I am collaborating, having a conversation with the interviewers. This is beyond my understanding now.
Hey Cisco, are you PM already? Considering breaking into PM but it’s an immense uphill battle and can’t even get a faang interview for entry level PM 🥲