What You Need to Know about the Facebook Product Design Interview

It’s been a couple of weeks now, two, as I’m writing this, since I got the email. I’d had a super long day so I was lying down feeling sorry for myself when I saw this:

Hi Viba

I came across your application and am impressed by your experience and design work. I work on hiring students for our Product Design teams across Facebook. We’d like to consider you for our open roles in 2019.

A moment like this is exactly what I’ve endlessly been working towards for the past year and it had finally arrived — I made it through the resume screening of one of the Big Four companies. Damn.

Now, when you’re a part of the first batch of design students in your university like I am, making it to the big leagues is tough. It’s hard to know if you’re working in the right direction and it’s equally tough to prepare for something like this. You just don’t have enough people to measure up to.

So naturally, when I got the email, I was worried about prepping. How do you even start right? I mean you’ve got one chance to ace this, and you have to give it your all.

Which is why I decided to write about it, with the hopes that it helps someone else.