Facebook hiring - how is this even possible?

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cMaj70
Dec 11, 2021 20 Comments

A direct friend at FB (not I heard from friend of friend) told me, that he interviewed a candidate and he checked the feedback.

The candidate got:
Coding round: STRONG NO
Coding round: WEAK NO
System design: YES
Behavioral round: weak YES

and then the candidate was given chance to have two more additional rounds:
Coding: YES
SD: WEAK YES

And the candidate got FB offer.

Update 1: I don’t know the level he’s interviewing for. I didn’t ask. I only know the candidate got 10 YOE. So I guess E5/E6?
Does level even matter when you got multiple NOs with a Strong NO?

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  • The people who voted no on coding may have had a reputation as bad interviewers who ask cranky leetcode hard questions they couldnt have answered themselves when they joined. You dont have to get a yes from every interviewer to get an offer from facebook
    Dec 11, 2021 3
    • They do go through training. And you can eventually get kicked off the interview circuit.
      Dec 11, 2021
    • Airbnb
      qioazxc

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      qioazxc
      They don’t need to have bad reputation, during the debrief process they might see others give a yes and thought they just didn’t get the right signal and worth doing another round interview. (Not to mention the coding might be conducted by a relatively junior engineer)

      Interviewer are all human I think this can easily happen.
      Dec 11, 2021
  • I've recommended a hire for people that received a strong no from an interviewer. In that particular case, it was a coding round and when reviewing the packet, I could see that the problem chosen by the interviewer was a better measure of a candidate's knowledge of matrix arithmetic than it was of actual coding or problem solving.
    Dec 11, 2021 0
  • Google
    gganbuu

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    gganbuu
    Is the direct friend the most truthful person in the world?
    Dec 11, 2021 0
  • It's weird that your friend knows the ratings of all interviews as an interviewer himself. Doesn't that create bias in the interviewer? Afaik this is not allowed at G/Amazon, you only know the ratings that YOU provide for the round you conducted. Unless you're on HC you don't know other ratings, and you shouldn't
    Dec 11, 2021 3
  • Sounds like Nepotism in Facebook. I interviewed for an FTE role at Kaiser last week. There were supposed to 5 ppl in the interview panel. Only two joined the interview. There was no explanation of why the other 3 didn’t join. I worked with one of them in the past and she had a lot of performance issues…I’m not sure how she became an FTE.
    Long story short, I got rejected from the role and I know the reason why. It’s because I didn’t fit in to the group(that teams org chart showed all Indians belonging to a specific region).
    Dec 11, 2021 2
    • Nice speculation based on completely unrelated circumstances and company culture
      Dec 11, 2021
    • It’s not completely unrelated….if you look at the bigger picture, probably the other candidate at Facebook got hired because of a very strong referral even though they didn’t have all the skill sets needed.
      This specific person who was in the interview panel at Kaiser was fired by my employer due to non availability & performance issues 5 years back….she joined Kaiser as an FTE 1 year after she was fired in the same team that she worked before. Her husband works as a sr.director for the same group.
      Dec 11, 2021