Meta Data Engineer interview experience

The SQL part came with tables included, and I had to answer based on what was there. The difficulty felt “average” overall, but the pressure was real—the thing that mattered wasn’t just getting to the right logic, it was doing it quickly enough to finish.

After that, I ran into how unforgiving the speed constraint was. Even when the individual prompts looked familiar, the total time box changed how I approached them, and once I started losing time on interpreting the question, I felt it compound across the rest of the tasks. With the Python portion, some prompts were harder to parse than I