Meta Data Scientist interview experience

The “technical skills” round was framed as SQL, but it turned into the hardest part because the interviewers weren’t consistent in how they ran the session—some wanted explanations while I wrote the code, while others wanted everything first and then questions later.

The environment also mattered. I could feel the pressure of getting the details exactly right: syntax had to be perfect, even down to punctuation, and any small mistake quickly turned into nitpicking. There was also confusion around the database assumptions during the exercise—at least in how the interviewers interacted with the