Meta·Data Engineer

Meta Data Engineer interview experience

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Menlo Park, CAPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process moved in three stages: a recruiter chat, a phone conversation, and then an onsite loop.

The recruiter call was around 20–30 minutes and focused on my resume and a walkthrough of a project—nothing overly strange, more about alignment. After that, I had a 60-minute phone screen with a split between SQL and Python, and it was very hands-on: I did work like sorting a column and comparing sales percentages across first vs. last day, then followed that with coding tasks such as a binary search plus something involving average length of lists.

The onsite was four back-to-back interviews. Two of them were SQL/ETL style questions, including joins, subqueries, and some trickier window

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