Meta·Data Engineer

Meta Data Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

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BengaluruPosted Oct 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My recruiter screen led into a technical round that felt genuinely eliminatory.

I was asked a set of SQL and Python questions—three each—and I had 50 minutes total. The difficulty wasn’t about trick concepts as much as it was about finishing enough to demonstrate capability.

I ended up not answering as many as I needed to; I only got through part of the SQL and part of the Python, and time kept slipping while I was deciding how to structure solutions. Even though there was still time left, the interaction didn’t turn into a longer rescue—once the assessment concluded, that was it.

I received a rejection shortly after. What stayed with me was how quickly “not enough

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