Meta Research Scientist Interview
Questions & Process
What 224 candidates said about the rounds, the
questions and how long the wait really is.
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“If I have a deep neural network and I increase the training batch size to be K times larger, how should I scale the learning rate?”
Read reports →“What is an FIR filter?”
Read reports →“Explain batchnorm.”
Read reports →“What is the time complexity?”
Read reports →“Explain VAEs.”
Read report →“Design a recommendation system for Facebook locations.”
Read report →“Why don't you use DiT?”
Read report →“Solve the first coding problem the interviewer gives you in the 45 min round.”
Read report →“What is your major?”
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The interview process
Described in candidates’ own words.
“Reached out by the recruiter. All recruiters and interviewers were really nice and kind. OA with 4 questions, LC Medium. Then, there are 4 interviews: Coding 2 LC Mediums (45 min) + PhD Behavioral (45 min) + ML System design (45 min) + AI Assisted Coding (1 hr). Overall, the process is lengthy, but make sure you rigorously prepare and practice. Lack of practice might make you mess things up, especially in ML design and Coding rounds.”Candidate-reported process
“Rec screen + Coding screen + 2 coding rounds + 1 ML system design + behavioral. Coding was mostly from leetcode meta tagged top 100 - 2 problems in each interview, and the system design round went in depth.”Candidate-reported process
“Normal interviews, some coding problems, a research interview with the manager and a coding interview. The main requirements on the research side is to propose a complete plan (baselines, benchmarks, model).”Candidate-reported processMore reports lockedRead 300+ more interview experiences
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