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Data Engineer Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California

February 1, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

First, a hiring manager round where background and a few SQL and data science questions were asked.

Then, a technical interview, one-on-one, with 5 SQL and 5 data science questions.

The next onsite consists of 3 rounds, covering data modeling, database design, and hard SQL questions.

Questions

SQL LeetCode hard-level questions DS Algo medium-level questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 82 interview experiences for the Meta Data Engineer role in Menlo Park, California.

Success Rate

21%

Pass Rate

Meta's interview process for their Data Engineer roles in Menlo Park, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive68%

Neutral20%

Negative12%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Data Engineer interview process in Menlo Park, California.

Meta Work Experiences

Good Company, Cutthroat Culture

Data Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

November 6, 2025

Pros: A good company to work for.

Cons: None other than cutthroat culture

Good Company, Cutthroat Culture

Data Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

November 6, 2025

Pros: A good company to work for.

Cons: None other than cutthroat culture

DE @ Meta

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance, remote during COVID-19.

Cons: Too many meetings, "Move fast" & robustness misaligned

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance, remote during COVID-19.

Cons: Too many meetings, "Move fast" & robustness misaligned

Good pay, but expect yourself as a small gear in a big engine

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

Pros: Good pay. Excellent resume eye-catcher. Best practices in data engineering and some good documentation that can be learned from.

Cons: You are a small moving part of a big engine. Leadership doesn't know you exist as an IC. Try hard enough to prove your impact to get into the cult. Too much empire building. Job specific - even though you would learn a lot about Data Engineering, the learning you get exponentially decreases. You learn more how to communicate rather than technical stuffs.

Good pay, but expect yourself as a small gear in a big engine

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

Pros: Good pay. Excellent resume eye-catcher. Best practices in data engineering and some good documentation that can be learned from.

Cons: You are a small moving part of a big engine. Leadership doesn't know you exist as an IC. Try hard enough to prove your impact to get into the cult. Too much empire building. Job specific - even though you would learn a lot about Data Engineering, the learning you get exponentially decreases. You learn more how to communicate rather than technical stuffs.

Good Company, Cutthroat Culture

Data Engineer • Former Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

November 6, 2025

Pros: A good company to work for.

Cons: None other than cutthroat culture

3.0
Good Company, Cutthroat Culture
Data Engineer • Former Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
November 6, 2025
Pros: A good company to work for.
Cons: None other than cutthroat culture

DE @ Meta

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance, remote during COVID-19.

Cons: Too many meetings, "Move fast" & robustness misaligned

5.0
DE @ Meta
Data Engineer • Current Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
March 10, 2022
Pros: Good work-life balance, remote during COVID-19.
Cons: Too many meetings, "Move fast" & robustness misaligned

Good pay, but expect yourself as a small gear in a big engine

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Menlo Park, California, United States

Pros: Good pay. Excellent resume eye-catcher. Best practices in data engineering and some good documentation that can be learned from.

Cons: You are a small moving part of a big engine. Leadership doesn't know you exist as an IC. Try hard enough to prove your impact to get into the cult. Too much empire building. Job specific - even though you would learn a lot about Data Engineering, the learning you get exponentially decreases. You learn more how to communicate rather than technical stuffs.

4.0
Good pay, but expect yourself as a small gear in a big engine
Data Engineer • Current Employee
Menlo Park, California, United States
April 8, 2023
Pros: Good pay. Excellent resume eye-catcher. Best practices in data engineering and some good documentation that can be learned from.
Cons: You are a small moving part of a big engine. Leadership doesn't know you exist as an IC. Try hard enough to prove your impact to get into the cult. Too much empire building. Job specific - even though you would learn a lot about Data Engineering, the learning you get exponentially decreases. You learn more how to communicate rather than technical stuffs.

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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