Meta Data Engineer interview experience

The assessment felt like a tight battery of questions: five SQL items and five Python/DSA-style questions. I had to get through all ten in under an hour, which was the real stress point for me—not the concepts themselves. I could tell some of the questions were the same kinds of prompts people often talk about, so I spent time reviewing similar sets afterward, but I didn’t have enough runway before that day.

Time pressure caught up with me. I didn’t manage to answer everything, and that meant I didn’t progress to any later rounds. What surprised me most was how little room there was for