Meta·Data Scientist

Meta Data Scientist interview experience

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Posted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through Meta’s virtual onsite for a Data Scientist role and it felt like a tight chain of different thinking styles.

The sequence started with Analytical Execution and then moved into a Technical Skills round centered on SQL. After that I did Behavioral, and the last leg was Analytical Reasoning.

In Analytical Execution, I was asked to dig into a metric investigation, including a scenario where bot behavior impacted comment volume. I also had a statistical estimation question involving confidence intervals for differences between samples, which pushed me to be precise about what the intervals implied. The SQL round tested practical schema and retrieval thinking—something like a shop visibility schema

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