Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through other source. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Dec 2020
Interview
The interview wasn't hard but was full of logical thinking exercises and they wanted to measure your knowledge in Data Warehousing field. The interviewers were nice and helpful and the interview was more like a conversation. This was my first FAANG interview and the recruiters and interviewers made me feel so comfortable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data Modeling:
Data Modeling Question for a hypothetical scenario where you have scope to work on your Data Warehousing knowledge.
How will you design ETL pipelines for the model?
SQL question to display data from your model.
Python/SQL questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Dec 2020
Interview
First call was with recruiter and then the coding interview on coderpad with a data engineer. 1 hour of interview with 25 mins each for SQL and Programming (I chose Python ) , 5 mins of intro and 5 mins of Q&A at the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Python: 1. count occurrence of a word ,
2. Uncommon words from two sentences
3. Replace None with previous value
SQL: questions on Sales, Promotion, Product tables. Calculation of percentage of total sales on start and end dates with overall sales, etc.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta
Interview
The whole process took around 2 months. I applied through a recruiter. 1 recruiter phone screen. 1 phone technical round. 4 onsite rounds including 3 technical rounds and 1 bq round.