Tell me about a time when you were forced to prioritize multiple projects.

"I had already been referred and was already in touch with a recruiter (for a previous interview process), so the first loop moved unusually smoothly and I even got to skip the technical screen there. The product loop was more standard: recruiter, a technical screen with SQL plus schema design, then a three-round onsite covering stats/modeling, experimentation/applied analysis, and Googliness. The tricky part is the two analytical onsite rounds overlap a lot, but the stats side was more trivia and mechanics than I expected, while the experimentation side stayed pretty close to standard A/B testing frameworks with a little causal inference mixed in. Overall the interviewers came off very friendly and conversational, and I finished my last onsite in mid-December."

"I got into Meta through a referral, and the recruiter reached out quickly. The process was recruiter chat, then a pre-onsite package with CodeSignal, a live technical screen, and a weird multiple-choice engineering philosophy questionnaire, and then about a month later the onsite with DSA, system design, behavioral, and the AI-enabled coding round. Honestly, Meta gave me the best prep materials of any company I interviewed with: a long prep PDF, portal videos, mock system design resources, and even a practice environment for the AI round. Most of the coding questions were exactly the kind of stuff people tell you to study in the Meta-tagged LeetCode list, so I never felt like they were hiding the ball. I didn't get the offer, and I think the system design round was what sank me because I expected distributed systems and got an API-design style chess problem that I handled in a really unorganized way."