How to Answer: How well do you communicate with teams?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Facebook job interview.
32. How well do you communicate with teams?
Why the Interviewer Asks This Question
Part of your interviewer's job is not just ensuring you possess the right skills, talents, and experience to do your job well. They also need to ensure you'll keep up with and complement their teams. The stronger your relationships with your coworkers, the greater the impact you'll have. So, they need to assess whether you'll be able to build lasting, cohesive, and stable relationships with your new co-workers right from the start. As they say on their careers page, "Make every connection matter."
Written by Kevin Downey on January 17th, 2024
What You Need to Know
Before their rebranding, Facebook's team members were known as Facebookers. Now they are called Metamates. Depending on your role, one of your interviews may even be with your "potential teammates, managers, and other people you may work with. Now is the time for you to learn even more about Meta, and for us to better understand your professional experience and talents. When all the interviews are complete, the people you spoke with submit their feedback on your interview performance and we assess whether you'd be successful in the role we're hiring for, or if there's another role at Meta that makes sense for you. We look forward to officially welcoming you to Meta. Together, we'll help give people the power to build community, and bring the world closer together."
Written by Kevin Downey on January 16th, 2024
Experienced Example
"I always look forward to establishing excellent relationships, whether we're introducing someone new to our teams, or I am the new addition to a team. I wholeheartedly believe that with strong trust, you'll build the best relationships, and, in so doing, build the best teams, which can accomplish the best things together. But it is an investment, and trusting relationships are built and earned over time. So, I start building trust by being transparent in my communications. Communicating clearly, working fast, earning my keep, leading by example, supporting my teams' efforts, and being willing to try new things. I will always deliver above what I say I'll do and faster than expected. When appropriate, I take the approach of under-promising and over-delivering to accelerate the trust process. I maintain a good, cheerful attitude as well. A friend to all. These are just some of the approaches I take when establishing relationships with co-workers."
Written by Kevin Downey on January 17th, 2024
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