The name Facebook is instantly recognizable these days and as it turns out, competition for jobs at the ever-expanding company is fierce. Everyday, the best and brightest compete for roles at Facebook that typically pay upward of $100 000 a year.
Business Insider's Jacquelyn Smith spoke to Ciara Brocklebank, a technical recruiter at Facebook in New York, to find out why the company is such a coveted place to work.
"There are so many things that make Facebook a great company to work for, but the two that stand out for me are the people and our mission," Brocklebank says. "We work with the best and brightest in their given field who are excited to make the world more open and connected. A lot of the people I work with have become my closest friends, and what could be more fun than working on something really challenging with your friends?"
Gaining a position at Facebook is a difficult process. "We are always looking for the best talent that supports our environment of focusing on impact," Brocklebank says. "We have a challenging evaluation process where we expect strong technical knowledge and a thirst to make an impact on the world." Working at Facebook will see employees face the most difficult technical challenges maintaining a social-network with over a billion users.
Brocklebank highlights two areas in which applicants can stand-out; the resume and the interview. Applicants with resumes that stand-out tend to grab recruiters' attention with evidence of "a solid academic background, relevant work experience, interesting side projects, and contributions to open-source projects." Excelling during the interview-process will require applicants to be able to answer a rigorous series of questioning. "For an engineering role, for example, you will be asked to solve coding problems, behavioral questions, and design and architecture questions to ascertain your depth of knowledge in each area," she says. "We ask comprehensive questions to get an overall sense of a candidate's breadth of skills, knowledge, and potential."
She also recommends that you attend one of Facebook's Crush Your Coding Interview sessions, which the company offers engineering candidates to help them prepare for their technical interviews. These sessions offer tips and tricks as well as mock interviews. Job seekers can also ask questions at the end.
"Generally, I would say what makes someone stand out to us is demonstrating what they are passionate about — talking about what they have been excited to work on in the past or what they would be excited to work on at Facebook is always really interesting to hear, as people have ideas that we may not have thought of yet," Brocklebank says.
Read the rest of Jacquelyn's interview at : http://www.businessinsider.com/what-facebook-looks-for-in-job-candidates-2015-1
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