Meta·Data Scientist

Meta Data Scientist interview experience

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Posted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My path to Meta included seven rounds overall, and it moved through a mix of presentation, technical fundamentals, and applied thinking.

There was a presentation component, then multiple research-design-focused discussions. After that I had a coding round, a round covering ML basics, and finally a behavioral interview.

The coding part was centered on leetcode-style questions, and the ML basics round felt like a refresher of fundamental concepts—metrics plus classic clustering and distance-style methods like PCA, k-means, and k-nearest neighbors. The research-design rounds made it clear they were looking for how I approached study framing and experimental thinking, not just how well I could solve problems.

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