Meta·Data Engineer

Meta Data Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with a phone screen that combined SQL and Python.

It was pretty clear that this was the gate: I had to solve a set of problems in each language, and only after passing that stage could I move on. Once I got through, I went into a longer onsite/virtual loop that felt structured around full-stack-style data work, plus at least one ownership-style behavioral round.

The full-stack rounds were built around product scenarios—think metrics for a real product—and I had to drive things end-to-end. That meant defining KPIs, mapping a data model, and then writing SQL to pull the metrics out. The modeling portion was where the grilling happened most: I

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