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Meta Data Engineer interview questions

Updated Jun 4, 2026

based on 416 ratings

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42%
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Recruiter
34%
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Applied online
18%
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2%
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Other
2%
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416 interviews

Data Engineer Interview

Sep 6, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jun 2020

Interview

phone screen followed by onsite Database and SQL data modeling , product sense python coding dictionaries lists product sense analytics, various kind of graphs SQL joins aggregations medium complex questions on python coder's pad

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Python replace the none value with last non null value

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Data Engineer Interview

Aug 21, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Declined offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in May 2021

Interview

Two technical rounds. First was SQL/pyhton which was 1 hour. 3-4 python questions and 3-4 SQL question. Next round was pure SQL and also past experience. Last round with hiring manager which was technical, 1 python and 1 SQL question.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

SQL question: given a table find the most recent transaction in the table.

1 Answer

Data Engineer Interview

Aug 17, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Aug 2021

Interview

Reached out by recruiter. Technical screening, 1hr, 5 python, 5 SQL You will be able to see the test cases as you're coding. For SQL questions you can query the database to check the data. I got 9.5 out of 10 questions correct. The last SQL questions I got incorrect, but the interviewer said my logic looked right. Waiting for response.

Interview questions [10]

Question 1

Write a function to return the number of times a character appears in a string. The character can be the empty string.

9 Answers

Question 2

Complete a function that returns a list containing mismatched words in two strings. The return list can be in any order. I used set to solve this question, but was also asked to verbally explain how I would solve it without using sets.

4 Answers

Question 3

Given an array containing None values, fill in the array with the most recent None value. If the list starts with None, then don't do anything to it.

3 Answers

Question 4

Given a dictionary, print the key for nth highest value present in the dict. If there are more than 1 record present for nth highest value then sort the key and print the first one (alphabetically). N can be higher than the number of elements in the dictionary.

9 Answers

Question 5

Given a list of ints, balance the list so that each int appears equally in the list. Return a dictionary where the key is the int and the value is the count needed to balance the list. [1, 1, 2] => {2: 1} [1, 1, 1, 5, 3, 2, 2] => {5: 2, 3: 2, 2: 1}

9 Answers

Question 6

What percent of all products in the grocery chain's catalog are both low fat and recyclable?

2 Answers

Question 7

What are the top five (ranked in decreasing order) single-channel media types that correspond to the most money the grocery chain had spent on its promotional campaigns? media_type can contain mutliple values seperated by a comma, so single channel is when media_type only has one value.

1 Answer

Question 8

Percent of sales that had a valid promotion, the VP of marketing wants to know what percent of transactions occur on either the very first day or the very last day of a promotion campaign.

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Question 9

Write a query that returns product_family, units_sold, percentage of promoted.

2 Answers

Question 10

Write a query that returns percentage of unsold product_category.

2 Answers

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Data Engineer Interview

Sep 6, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Jun 2020

Interview

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Python replace the none value with last non null value

Answer question

Data Engineer Interview

Aug 21, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Declined offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta (Palo Alto, CA) in May 2021

Interview

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

SQL question: given a table find the most recent transaction in the table.

1 Answer

Data Engineer Interview

Aug 17, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in Aug 2021

Interview

Interview questions [10]

Question 1

Write a function to return the number of times a character appears in a string. The character can be the empty string.

9 Answers

Question 2

4 Answers

Question 3

Given an array containing None values, fill in the array with the most recent None value. If the list starts with None, then don't do anything to it.

3 Answers

Question 4

9 Answers

Question 5

9 Answers

Question 6

What percent of all products in the grocery chain's catalog are both low fat and recyclable?

2 Answers

Question 7

1 Answer

Question 8

Percent of sales that had a valid promotion, the VP of marketing wants to know what percent of transactions occur on either the very first day or the very last day of a promotion campaign.

Answer question

Question 9

Write a query that returns product_family, units_sold, percentage of promoted.

2 Answers

Question 10

Write a query that returns percentage of unsold product_category.

2 Answers

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