I had a phone screen for a FB internship last week. Yesterday the recruiter got back to me and said that I'd done well but that they didn't have room in the track that I'd originally been slotted for (PhD ML engineer) and to give them 1-2 weeks to figure it out.
But the recruiter also said that there were spots open in the Systems and Infrastructure track and that if I were interested in that she could connect me with those teams. In fact I am interested in systems and infra (I said as much during the warm-up with the first interviewer during the screen) so I immediately responded in the affirmative.
Today I spoke with a friend that works at FB and he said the issue is that it's quite late in the semester and so the recruiter is being honest about having trouble finding me a spot.
The reality is I would be absolutely ecstatic to work on anything at FB (systems, ML, mobile, frontend, etc) but I'm not sure if they're considering me for all those slots or only PhD slots. I'm also not sure how to effectivity communicate this to my recruiter (that I'm excited about anything).
Any advice while anxiously waiting out the next 2 weeks would be appreciated.