Meta Applied Science Context Questions

Familiarity with how applied research and product engineering intersect at Meta and how scientific investigations translate into product impact. Candidates should understand core product domains such as recommendation and ranking systems for Feed, Reels and Stories, content understanding and moderation, integrity and safety systems, and personalization across messaging and social graphs. Topics include how applied scientists choose high impact problems, define offline and online success metrics, design experiments and evaluation pipelines, manage production constraints such as latency and scale, and collaborate cross functionally with product and engineering teams. Knowledge of recent public research or engineering posts and an ability to connect those works to concrete product challenges is useful.