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      Product Specialist Interview

      Sep 3, 2015
      Anonymous employee
      Menlo Park, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Aug 2015

      Interview

      Others here have had much shorter processes, but mine went like this: 1. Employee referral. Recruiter got back to me within a day or two to set up an initial call, which was a few days later. 2. Initial phone screen. This was very basic. Simple questions you'd expect at basically any interview, with no skills assessment at all - just behavioral questions. At the end of the interview I'd clearly passed because we went ahead and scheduled the second round (I think this is the general "perk" that an internal referral gets you), which was a week and a half later. 3. Video conference with a PM and another Product Specialist. Started with a lot of behavioral and why Facebook questions, and then a very short case study exercise. If you brush up on product development, the case study will be a breeze. Obviously I'm under NDA, but at least for my video conference, there were no curveballs. Be prepared to discuss your interaction with other technologies and apps in Facebook-adjacent spaces. Within a few hours of the video conference, the recruiter got back to me and we scheduled the onsite for a week and a half after that. 4. Onsite with two Product Specialists and a higher level Manager (above PMs I believe). I had a quick call with the recruiter two days before to talk about logistics and format. Though your recruiter obviously can't tell you much, you should ask as many questions here as possible! The interview was in three distinct parts: the first was about general product and market knowledge, the second was about workflow and problem solving, and the third was behavioral. My best advice is to study the job description line by line. I had no product development experience, but I studied hard for the interview and did well. The interview was tough, though - especially if you don't get a good interviewer, so you're more "on the spot." Have a lot of stories prepared for the behavioral interview, and definitely be sure to ask and think up insightful questions. 4.5. Hiring manager phone screen. One of the folks I was supposed to meet with at my onsite wasn't there, so we had a video conference a few days after the onsite. Again, the interview was pretty standard, definitely be prepared to talk about how you fit in with Facebook's mission. The toughie is really the onsite, not this one. 5. Reference check. A few days later, the recruiter told me that they would be checking my references and that they planned to make an offer presuming I "passed" the reference check. 6. Offer. In my case this was about a week and a half after initial contact about references.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      NDA. Definitely be prepared to talk about how you interact with Facebook, Facebook's mission, product development, your work style, and projects you've worked on in the past.
      Answer question
      54

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      Product Specialist Interview

      Jun 3, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY)

      Interview

      Applied and got an email for a phone screen. Thought the phone screen went well. The call took about 30 minutes and it was the standard questions. Got a rejection the next day

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why do you want this role?
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      Product Specialist Interview

      Jun 19, 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Meta

      Interview

      It’s like a stripped down version of a PM interview. Focus on prioritization questions and teamwork questions. Easy SQL question. “How would you design a queue system for a restaurant?”

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      “How would you design a queue system for a restaurant?”
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      Product Specialist Interview

      Apr 14, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Mountain View, CA)

      Interview

      Interview was okay in difficulty. The annoying thing was that everyone was reading a script word for word. Like literally you can see them read the script during the interview. The interviewers didn't have the ability to articulate their own thoughts, just stuck to the script. Sometimes my responses already addressed what their script's follow up question asked..and yet they asked it again and it made things really awkward. Avoided a bullet though as this company is now on its way to self-destruct.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      SQL test, a lot of 'tell me about a time when' questions, and projects you've worked on
      1 Answer

      Meta interviews FAQs

      • Product Specialist applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Product Specialist roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 31 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 31 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Product Specialist according to 31 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  32%

        One on one interview:  17%

        Skills test:  14%

        Group panel interview:  14%

        Background check:  8%

        Presentation:  7%

        Personality test:  5%

        IQ intelligence test:  2%

        Drug test:  2%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

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        2. Data Scientist(527) ;
        3. Senior Software Engineer(490) ;
        4. Product Manager(392) ;
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