11 years ago with an aim to
connect the college students.
Today, apart from connecting the college
students and obviously many others, it's
one the favorite places to work at in the
tech industry.
The interns working at Facebook make
$25,000 more than the average US
citizen. Also, the employees on Glassdoor
voted Facebook as the #1 company to
work for. But, getting a job there isn't an
easy job. To accomplish that, you'll have
to answer some tricky Facebook interview
questions to prove your caliber.
Most of the questions are inclined
towards the technical side. We have
collected some of the toughest questions
asked from Glassdoor and many of these
are extra-challenging.
Let's take a look at these Facebook
interview question for different jobs:
Question #1
There is a building with 100 floors. You
are given 2 identical eggs. How do you use
2 eggs to find the threshold floor, where
the egg will definitely break from any
floor above floor N, including floor N
itself.
(Data Scientist candidate)
Question #2
If you were going to redesign an ATM
machine, how would you do it?
(Product Designer Candidate)
Question #3
How many birthday posts occur on
Facebook on a given day?
(Data Scientist Candidate)
Question #4
Do you think that Facebook should be
available to China?
(User Operations Analyst candidate)
Question #5
How much do you charge to wash every
window in Seattle?
(Online Sales Operations Candidate)
Question #6
Describe how the website works. (That's
the whole question, with no context.)
(Technical Project Manager Candidate)
Question #7
How much money is spent on the
internet?
(Account Manager Candidate)
Question #8
How would you design a simpler TV
remote control?
(Product Designer Candidate)
Question #9
How do you deal with communicating less
than favorable information?
(Training Candidate)
Question #10
You're at a casino with two dice, if you
roll a 5 you win, and get paid $10. What is
your expected payout? If you play until
you win (however long that takes) then
stop, what is your expected payout?
(Data Scientist Candidate)
Question #11
You have two light bulbs and a 100-story
building. You want to find the floor at
which the bulbs will break when dropped.
Find the floor using the least number of
drops.
(Software Engineer Candidate)
Question #12
How would you set up an interview in this
room?
(Content Producer Candidate)
Question #13
How many vacuums are there in the USA?
(Risk Analyst Candidate)
Question #14
What options do you have, nefarious or
otherwise, to stop people on a wireless
network you are also on (but have no
admin rights to) from hogging bandwidth
by streaming videos?
(Production Engineer Candidate)
Question #15
How many Big Macs does McDonald sell
each year in the US?
(Data Scientist Candidate)
Question #16
How would you build Facebook for blind
people?
(Product Manager Candidate)
Question #17
Tell me your plan of action if you saw that
photo uploads suddenly dropped by 50%.
(Operations Associate User Intelligence
Candidate)
Question #18
A Russian gangster kidnaps you. He puts
two bullets in consecutive order in an
empty six-round revolver, spins it, points
it at your head and shoots. *click* You're
still alive. He then asks you, do you want
me to spin it again and fire or pull the
trigger again. For each option, what is the
probability that you'll be shot?
(Internet Marketing Analyst Candidate)
Question #19
Should Facebook continue to add features
or rely on 3rd party apps?
(Product Designer Candidate)
Question #20
If you were an animal what kind would
you be and why?
(User Operations Analyst Candidate)
Question #21
What are you least proud of on your
resume?
(Media Solutions Specialist Candidate)
Question #22
Given access to all the data Facebook
collects, what would you do with it?
(Product Analytics Candidate)
Question #23
Pre-IPO, they asked me to write a paper
on the valuation of Facebook. They also
asked me what I thought the greatest
technological advancement was in the past
20 years.
(Software Engineer Candidate)
Question #24
If you have 100 credit card numbers (and
all info) how would you make as much $
possible in 24 hours using only online
transactions? (Many follow-up questions
of how to get around certain fraud
deterrents.)
(Ads Risk Associate Candidate)
Question #25
You are trying to rob houses on a street.
Each house has some amount of cash.
Your goal is to rob houses such that you
maximize the total robbed amount. The
constraint is once you rob a house you
cannot rob a house adjacent to that house.
(Software Engineer Candidate)
Question #26
The most difficult question was the 8-
hour test, which involved deriving a novel
and fairly-involved algorithm, significant
CSS/HTML/JS coding, and plenty of
opportunities to get something subtly
wrong.
(User Interface Engineer Candidate)
Question #27
25 racehorses, no stopwatch. 5 tracks.
Figure out the top three fastest horses in
the fewest number of races.
(Software Engineering Summer Intern
Candidate)
Question #28
What is the process you would go about in
spotting a fake profile?
(User Operations Analyst Candidate)
Question #29
You're about to get on a plane to Seattle.
You want to know if you should bring an
umbrella. You call 3 random friends of
yours who live there and ask each
independently if it's raining. Each of your
friends has a 2/3 chance of telling you the
truth and a 1/3 chance of messing with
you by lying. All 3 friends tell you that
'Yes' it is raining. What is the probability
that it's actually raining in Seattle?
(Data Scientist Candidate)
Did you find these Facebook interview
questions difficult? Tell us in the
comments below.
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