Research Scientist Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 76% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Research Scientist Intern roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 38 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 Research Scientist Intern according to 38 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 26%
Phone interview: 16%
Presentation: 15%
Background check: 8%
Group panel interview: 5%
Drug test: 1%
Personality test: 1%
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Recruiter reach out -> back-to-back. one round of coding + one round research.
1 leetcode easy + 1 K-means clustering implementation for coding
presentation about my research for the second round
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
There was 1 research and 1 coding interview. The research interview consisted of 2 parts: in the first part, they asked questions about my publications, while the second part was a brainstorming session about a research problem.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2026
Interview
1. ML design round: Asked a design question on ML compilers
2. LeetCode round: 2 easy-medium questions
Was not able to go deep into compiler design as I was not aware that is what was required for the position(never mentioned in description)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. ML design round: Asked a design question on ML compilers
I had two interviews: one for research fit, where I presented my own research and the interviewer asked a lot of open-ended questions and the second was 45 minutes of ML coding (no pytorch), which was not very hard.