Made my way to Facebook HQ for the grueling 5+ hour interview process. Met head recruiter, and introduced me to the first interviewer, who was from a different part of the organization, they said they wanted to get a perspective of me from someone on the "outside" What? Next person was the toughest. Instead of interviewing me, he basically wanted to show me exactly how much "he" knew about each topic. We spent more time going over what he knew, rather than how much I knew! Next couple of interviewers were very nice and asked "reasonable" questions, which I answered correctly. There were only a few that I said I would have to come back to, which I did and again I answered them correctly! I then met with the group manager, who was very nice, not technical at all, but asked me situation type questions about conflict management. You know the questions about how you handle tough people who think their ideas are the "only" good ideas, and other similar questions. So, overall I know for a fact the first interviewer had his mind made up even before we started the interview; arms crossed, stern look, higher-than-thou attitude. I didn't get the job, even though everyone else wanted to hire me, the first interviewer had it in for me for sure. The manager even asked me if I need to give the standard two week notice and basically asked when I could start. So I was shocked when i got the "we have no position to offer you at this time" email.
