Meta Data Engineer interview experience

The questions weren’t only hard because of the coding or SQL itself; what threw me off was decoding what the interviewer actually wanted. I remember getting a scenario described like a bookstore checkout system, but the explanation was vague enough that I had to keep guessing the intended behavior, and the interviewer didn’t really help me clarify it as I went.

Once I finally landed on what to build, I worked through it, but the overall tone still felt like a test of interpretation under pressure. Even though the process didn’t drag out for me, it left me with the impression that I was being