I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2021
Interview
The recruiter asked me to schedule two slots for interviews with a research engineer and a research scientist within the hiring team. I didn’t meet the hiring manager. After the interviews, I got a call from the recruiter to discuss the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first interview was about my work experience - just going over my background and the projects I’ve worked on. The second interview was a research problem. I was given a problem and asked to think of potential solutions (design of a device, and how to validate or characterize it, what study shall be conducted and so on). The interviewer was working things out with me, so it was smooth overall.
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.