Its interns make $25,000 more than the average US citizen. And famously, employees on job website Glassdoor voted Facebook as the No. 1 company to work for overall.
But in order to get a job there, one needs to answer some tricky questions first.
We've compiled some of the toughest Facebook interview questions shared by people on Glassdoor. Whether you're looking for a programming job or a marketing position, these interview questions will surely be of help.
1. Question: 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.
Position: Data scientist
2.Question: If you were going to redesign an ATM machine, how would you do it
Position: Product designer
3.Question: How many birthday posts occur on Facebook on a given day?
Position: Data scientist
4.Question: How much do you charge to wash every window in Seattle?
Position: Online sales operations
5.Question: What would you do on day 1 here?
Position: Technology partner
Position: Technology partner
6.Question: Describe how the website works. (That's the whole question, with no context.)
Position: Technical project manager
Position: Technical project manager
7.Question: You have two lightbulbs 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.
Position: Software engineer
8.Question: How many vacuums are there in the USA?
Position: Risk analyst
Position: Risk analyst
9.Question: 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?
Position: Production engineer
10.Question: Tell me your plan of action if you saw that photo uploads suddenly dropped by 50%.
Position: Operations associate user intelligence
Position: Operations associate user intelligence
11.Question: 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?
Position: Internet marketing
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?
Position: Internet marketing
12.Question: Should Facebook continue to add features or rely on 3rd party apps?
Position: Product designer
Position: Product designer
13.Question: What are you least proud of in your resume?
Position: Media solutions specialist
14.Question: Given access to all the data Facebook collects, what would you do with it?
Position: Product analytics
Position: Product analytics
15.Question: Write a paper on the valuation of Facebook (this question was asked before Facebook went public). What are the greatest technological advancement of the past 20 years.
Position: Software engineer
Position: Software engineer
16.Question: 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.)
Position: Ads risk associate
(Many follow up questions of how to get around certain fraud deterrents.)
Position: Ads risk associate
17.Question: 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.
Position: Software engineer
The constraint is once you rob a house you cannot rob a house adjacent to that house.
Position: Software engineer
18.Question: 25 racehorses, no stopwatch. 5 tracks. Figure out the top three fastest horses in the fewest number of races.
Position: Software engineering summer intern
Position: Software engineering summer intern
19.Question: What is the process you would go about in spotting a fake profile?
Position: User operations analyst
Position: User operations analyst
20.Question: Do you think that Facebook should be available in China?
Position: User operations analyst
Position: User operations analyst
21.Question: 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?
Position: Data scientist
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?
Position: Data scientist
22.Question: How much money is spent on the internet?
Position: Account manager
Position: Account manager
23.Question: If you were an animal what kind would you be and why?
Position: User operations analys
Position: User operations analys
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