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“I was a little complacent because I’m already ex-Meta, and the surprising feedback was that my project retrospective was only leaning toward hire because I answered a constructive feedback question like they were asking for praise. I cleared the loop, discussed numbers and joining date, and then the offer got put on hold because of the hiring freeze.”
“I probably did at least 10 solid 12 hour days of prep and kind of overprepped into oblivion, and then the interviews were so loosey goosey I barely got to show my thinking before they hired someone internal.”
“What surprised me most was that after typing a simple URL in the browser, they expected me to drive the whole conversation end to end, from DNS and system calls to interrupts and sockets, and then defend every layer.”
“I said I deep dived on an AI project, and they immediately started asking what parameters I used to train the model and why I switched from one LLM to another. Even the behavioral round got super technical.”
“What stood out to me was how practical it felt. In one round they actually let me Google a Python dictionary syntax issue, and in the onsite they kept asking not just how to fix the bug, but how it would hurt the customer experience.”
“When I went on-site in Palo Alto, they had security guards with guns at the entrance, were doing bag checks, and I even needed an escort to the bathroom. It honestly felt like TSA before an interview.”
“They basically gave me access to part of their codebase and were like, "Figure it out, see anything you want to build, and just build it." For eight hours I worked out of a Slack group, then presented the feature at the end of the day.”
“Both product sense rounds followed this exact theme of, "we have this magical technology, help us figure out what to do with it," and one prompt was literally speech to animal language. It was actually really fun to work on.”
“What I’ll remember is that in the first hiring manager call, once you’d cleared the bar, the questions shifted to, “How are you great?” and “How are you top 5 to 10%?” That was pretty non-standard.”
