had 5 rounds total. started with a recruiter screen, then a phone interview with a pm, and then the virtual onsite loop which was product sense, execution, and leadership & drive. ended with a final chat with the hiring manager. tbh the whole process felt way more like just having regular conversations than getting grilled, which was a nice surprise. they were super transparant the whole time and the interviewers actually told me what they were looking for upfront before we started the questions. For prep I used Product alliance, then there’s this Meta PM resource on Prepfully website which covered a lot, Stellar peers for questions, and some reading on the pragmatic engineer, blind, and reddit.

The loop at Meta has definitely evolved recently. The initial phone screen was standard algorithms. However, the virtual onsite was much more practical than I expected. They still have the architecture and behavioral rounds, but they also included a live coding and debugging session. They want to see if you can actually navigate a messy codebase under time pressure, not just memorize optimal solutions on a blank screen.