Trust & Safety Specialist, Content Moderation
virtual
· Difficulty 2/5
Candidates report a recruiter screen focused on availability, policy interest, and comfort with sensitive content, followed by interviews with trust and safety team members. The process typically includes scenario-based questions about applying platform policies consistently and escalating uncertain cases. Some loops include a short assessment or review exercise to evaluate judgment, attention to detail, and documentation quality. Final steps often confirm shift preferences and team fit, with timelines commonly moving faster than technical hiring when headcount is urgent.
- How would you handle a borderline piece of content that may violate harassment or hate policies but lacks explicit slurs?
- Describe a time you had to follow a strict policy even when you personally disagreed with the outcome.
- What steps would you take to ensure consistency when multiple reviewers interpret a policy differently?
- What does user safety mean to you on a global platform with diverse cultural norms?
Product Manager, Core Experience
virtual
· Difficulty 3/5
Candidates report a recruiter call followed by one or two interviews with product or program leaders to assess product sense and communication. The process typically includes case-style questions about prioritization, metrics, and experimentation, sometimes paired with a written or slide-based exercise. Cross-functional interviews with engineering, design, data, or operations are common to evaluate execution and stakeholder management. Final steps often include a hiring manager interview and a debrief, with an overall timeline that can vary based on panel availability.
- How would you define success metrics for an update to the For You feed experience?
- You see a drop in short-term retention after a new feature launch. How do you investigate and respond?
- How do you prioritize between creator growth, viewer satisfaction, and monetization requests when they conflict?
- What kind of product culture helps teams move fast while managing risk, and how have you contributed to it?
Software Engineer, Backend
virtual
· Difficulty 4/5
Candidates report an initial recruiter screen focused on role fit, location, and timeline, followed by one or more technical phone or video interviews. The process typically includes coding rounds that emphasize data structures and algorithms plus practical backend topics such as APIs, concurrency, and performance. Many processes add a system design interview centered on high-scale services and reliability. A final virtual onsite loop often bundles multiple technical rounds and a behavioral or cross-functional interview, with timelines commonly spanning a few weeks depending on scheduling.
- Implement an LRU cache with O(1) get and put operations and discuss edge cases.
- Design a rate-limiting service for a high-traffic API used by mobile clients.
- How would you debug and reduce tail latency in a microservice handling feed requests?
- Describe a time you disagreed with a technical approach and how you aligned the team on a decision.