The though 23 questions that are asked in facebook

Facebook is one of the most sought-after workplaces in the tech industry.

Its interns make $25,000 more than the average US citizen. And famously, employees on job website Glassdoor voted Facebook as the No. 1 company to work for overall.

But in order to get a job there, one needs to answer some tricky questions first.

We've compiled some of the toughest Facebook interview questions shared by people on Glassdoor. Whether you're looking for a programming job or a marketing position, these interview questions will surely be of help.

Question: There is a building with 100 floors. You are given 2 identical eggs. How do you use 2 eggs to find the threshold floor, where the egg will definitely break from any floor above floor N, including floor N itself.

Position: Data scientist

Question: If you were going to redesign an ATM machine, how would you do it

Position: Product designer

Question: How many birthday posts occur on Facebook on a given day?

Position: Data scientist

Question: How much do you charge to wash every window in Seattle?

Position: Online sales operations

Question: What would you do on day 1 here?

Position: Technology partner

Question: Describe how the website works. (That's the whole question, with no context.)

Position: Technical project manager

Question: You have two lightbulbs and a 100-story building. You want to find the floor at which the bulbs will break when dropped. Find the floor using the least number of drops.

Position: Software engineer

Question: How many vacuums are there in the USA?

Position: Risk analyst

Question: What options do you have, nefarious or otherwise, to stop people on a wireless network you are also on (but have no admin rights to) from hogging bandwidth by streaming videos?

Position: Production engineer

Question: Tell me your plan of action if you saw that photo uploads suddenly dropped by 50%.

Position: Operations associate user intelligence

Question: A Russian gangster kidnaps you. He puts two bullets in consecutive order in an empty six-round revolver, spins it, points it at your head and shoots. *click* You're still alive.

He then asks you, do you want me to spin it again and fire or pull the trigger again. For each option, what is the probability that you'll be shot?


Position: Internet marketing

Question: Should Facebook continue to add features or rely on 3rd party apps?

Position: Product designer

Question: What are you least proud of in your resume?

Position: Media solutions specialist

Question: Given access to all the data Facebook collects, what would you do with it?

Position: Product analytics

Question: Write a paper on the valuation of Facebook (this question was asked before Facebook went public). What are the greatest technological advancement of the past 20 years.


Position: Software engineer

Question: If you have 100 credit card numbers (and all info) how would you make as much $ possible in 24 hours using only online transactions?

(Many follow up questions of how to get around certain fraud deterrents.)


Position: Ads risk associate

Question: You are trying to rob houses on a street. Each house has some amount of cash. Your goal is to rob houses such that you maximize the total robbed amount.

The constraint is once you rob a house you cannot rob a house adjacent to that house.


Position: Software engineer

Question: 25 racehorses, no stopwatch. 5 tracks. Figure out the top three fastest horses in the fewest number of races.

Position: Software engineering summer intern

Question: What is the process you would go about in spotting a fake profile?

Position: User operations analyst

Question: Do you think that Facebook should be available in China?

Position: User operations analyst

Question: You're about to get on a plane to Seattle. You want to know if you should bring an umbrella. You call 3 random friends of yours who live there and ask each independently if it's raining.

Each of your friends has a 2/3 chance of telling you the truth and a 1/3 chance of messing with you by lying. All 3 friends tell you that 'Yes' it is raining. What is the probability that it's actually raining in Seattle?


Position: Data scientist

Question: How much money is spent on the internet?

Position: Account manager

Question: If you were an animal what kind would you be and why?