Meta Data Engineer interview experience

I had a tight list of Python and SQL tasks—three of each—and the whole point felt like speed plus correctness. I could run my code against provided tests to confirm it worked, which helped, but the questions still moved quickly enough that I couldn’t overthink any single step.

At onsite, the structure was straightforward but intense: multiple hour-long technical sessions and then a behavioral round. Each long session began with a business analytics problem, where I had to brainstorm and then work toward a data-warehouse style design—building enough of the pipeline to compute the metrics they