Meta·Data Scientist

Meta Data Scientist interview experience

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Pittsburgh, PAPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a longer research-flavored DS process that stretched to about three weeks.

It started with a recruiter step that set expectations, and then the first real step was a research presentation with the broader team. After that, I met individual interviewers across a sequence that mixed behavioral discussion with research deep-dives, statistics, and coding—plus a specialized set of interviews that depended on the team I’d applied to.

The onsite itself felt like a loop built around depth. I had a research talk that framed how I thought, then rounds that drilled into statistics and machine learning fundamentals, and I also got a coding component that was tied to the

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