Engineering Manager interview
at Meta.

Tell-me-about-a-time stories on ownership, conflict, and impact — scored against this company's real values.

1. 01 Tell me about a time you managed an underperforming engineer, including how you coached them and the eventual outcome.
2. 02 Describe how you resolved a conflict between two senior engineers on your team who disagreed on architecture.
3. 03 Tell me about a time you had to influence a partner team or leader without direct authority to change a roadmap.
4. 04 Describe a leadership mistake you made as a manager and what you changed afterward.

The hard screen for the craft itself — talked through out loud, not whiteboarded in your head.

1. 01 Describe the most technically complex project your team delivered, the bottleneck you hit, and how you resourced the team to overcome it.
2. 02 How would you set up on-call, reliability, and incident-response practices for a service that powers a Meta product at billions-of-users scale.
3. 03 How do you balance shipping fast against long-term technical health when prioritizing your team's backlog?
4. 04 Walk me through how you'd evaluate, scope, and staff a migration of a legacy service serving live production traffic.

Open-ended design of the systems this company actually runs, with the interviewer probing your tradeoffs.

1. 01 Design Facebook News Feed at a high level and explain where you'd focus your team's investment and what the main scaling bottlenecks are.
2. 02 Design Instagram's media storage and delivery system and discuss how you'd organize teams around its components.
3. 03 Design a real-time notifications platform for Meta apps and explain the reliability and cost trade-offs you'd weigh as the EM.
4. 04 Design Messenger's messaging backend and walk through how you'd phase delivery across multiple teams and quarters.