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“I got all the way to the end for an L6 EM role, and the must-pass round was a 200-plus-line code review in a Google Doc where I had to manually debug broken interval logic with no IDE and no tools.”
“Not all interviewers may be able to adequately ask the right questions to go in depth, but they are absolutely looking for you to provide that depth by yourself. Your examples should not be surface level, but show you actually lived through the situation.”
“I was really confident of getting an offer, but they told me I scored higher on the management side and failed coding and product design. What surprised me most was hearing the product design feedback was structured so the recruiter couldn't really challenge it.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
“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.”
“Some of the interviews are very formulaic. When they ask about management experience they first start by asking what is the largest org you've managed, and then all following questions are about that org. The largest org I had managed was at a bank which doesn't have the greatest parallels to draw from. If I had better understood the format I would have answered with the bank, but explicitly stated that it's not a good analogy lets talk about this slightly smaller org because it's closer to you guys. Instead, this conversation happened at the end.”
“I was surprised at the volume of questions in the management screen. I had previously intererviewed at Amazon 3-4 yrs ago and it was 3 or 4 questions. Half of these questions were behavioral and half were management framework/philosophical.”
“I have 2 technical screens and the bar for EM for system designs is very high. The recruiter communication was very good. However the process took very long. ”
