Meta

Data Engineer Intern Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

February 10, 2026

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online. The process took 3 months.

This is for the 2025 Summer Intern recruiting cycle.

Online Assessment
1st technical Interview (Python)
2nd technical Interview (SQL)

Each were about 60 mins. Python questions are easy or middle LeetCode questions. For the SQL round it is good to know window functions. There were also behavioral questions for each interview round.

Questions

Why do you want to work at Meta?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Meta Data Engineer Intern role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Data Engineer Intern roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Data Engineer Intern interview process in San Francisco, California.

Meta Work Experiences

Great Learning Opportunity

Data Engineer Intern • Former Employee

November 10, 2022

Pros: Placed on a small team to foster relationships, the project combined skills that I was strong in and topics I knew nothing about, which led me to learn a lot.

Cons: Have not heard about a return offer.

Great Learning Opportunity

Data Engineer Intern • Former Employee

November 10, 2022

Pros: Placed on a small team to foster relationships, the project combined skills that I was strong in and topics I knew nothing about, which led me to learn a lot.

Cons: Have not heard about a return offer.

Great experience, but not great products

Data Engineer Intern • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

Pros: Great people, benefits, work-life balance, and meaningful projects.

Cons: Focus too much on revenue instead of creating meaningful, beneficial products for users.

Great experience, but not great products

Data Engineer Intern • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

Pros: Great people, benefits, work-life balance, and meaningful projects.

Cons: Focus too much on revenue instead of creating meaningful, beneficial products for users.

Data Engineering Summer Internship

Data Engineer Intern • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

November 21, 2022

Pros: Open Culture Impactful Projects Work/Life Balance Perks and Compensation Support from the team, internship program staff, and leadership.

Cons: Work for full-timers may be intense at times to meet deadlines, close to the end of H1 (June).

Data Engineering Summer Internship

Data Engineer Intern • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

November 21, 2022

Pros: Open Culture Impactful Projects Work/Life Balance Perks and Compensation Support from the team, internship program staff, and leadership.

Cons: Work for full-timers may be intense at times to meet deadlines, close to the end of H1 (June).

Great Learning Opportunity

Data Engineer Intern • Former Employee

November 10, 2022

Pros: Placed on a small team to foster relationships, the project combined skills that I was strong in and topics I knew nothing about, which led me to learn a lot.

Cons: Have not heard about a return offer.

5.0
Great Learning Opportunity
Data Engineer Intern • Former Employee
November 10, 2022
Pros: Placed on a small team to foster relationships, the project combined skills that I was strong in and topics I knew nothing about, which led me to learn a lot.
Cons: Have not heard about a return offer.

Great experience, but not great products

Data Engineer Intern • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

Pros: Great people, benefits, work-life balance, and meaningful projects.

Cons: Focus too much on revenue instead of creating meaningful, beneficial products for users.

5.0
Great experience, but not great products
Data Engineer Intern • Current Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
July 7, 2022
Pros: Great people, benefits, work-life balance, and meaningful projects.
Cons: Focus too much on revenue instead of creating meaningful, beneficial products for users.

Data Engineering Summer Internship

Data Engineer Intern • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

November 21, 2022

Pros: Open Culture Impactful Projects Work/Life Balance Perks and Compensation Support from the team, internship program staff, and leadership.

Cons: Work for full-timers may be intense at times to meet deadlines, close to the end of H1 (June).

5.0
Data Engineering Summer Internship
Data Engineer Intern • Former Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
November 21, 2022
Pros: Open Culture Impactful Projects Work/Life Balance Perks and Compensation Support from the team, internship program staff, and leadership.
Cons: Work for full-timers may be intense at times to meet deadlines, close to the end of H1 (June).

Meta Interview Questions

Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses

Given a string with parentheses, determine the minimum number of parentheses you must remove to make the string valid. A valid string has balanced and properly nested parentheses.

StringsStacksTwo Pointers

Valid Word Abbreviation

Determine if a given abbreviation is valid for a given word. An abbreviation can contain digits representing the number of skipped characters.

StringsTwo Pointers

Binary Tree Vertical Order Traversal

Traverse a binary tree and return a list of node values for each vertical line, ordered from left to right. Nodes on the same vertical line should be ordered from top to bottom.

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