I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Irvine, CA) in May 2020
Interview
A hipsterish recruiter emailed me on behalf of a manager to see if I'm interested in research position. He had me fill out a profile on their platform. Once that was done, he set up a video interview on BlueJeans with a scientist on that team. I did not enjoy the interview; the AV quality was so choppy that it was such a bad experience (why don't they just Zoom like everyone else). I declined to proceed further immediately after the call.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
7 Interviews, didn't receive an offer after the final round. Time-consuming process, which includes multiple rounds of technical interviews (design, coding, behavior, etc.) and a 1-hour research talk. The team leader was unpleasant to interact with.
recruiter call, technical interview, research interview, and job talk (presentation), hiring manager interview, everything was organized in the website so it was easy to navigate through the process, and recruiter was always responding super quickly