Meta·Data Scientist

Meta Data Scientist interview experience

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Denver, COPosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiter outreach came first, and then I was pulled into a fairly long sequence—five rounds total.

I started with a technical screen that was very SQL-heavy, focused on drilling down on catching spam posts on Facebook. After that, the virtual on-sites unfolded across multiple sessions and interviewers, with a mix of behavioral and analytics work.

On the on-sites, I went through analytical reasoning and execution rounds, plus more SQL drill-downs and analytical reasoning that felt like it was testing how I break down messy data problems into something measurable. The hardest parts weren’t the “gotchas” so much as the breadth: every round seemed to demand both correct thinking and clean

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