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Data Engineer Interview Experience - Menlo Park, California

September 27, 2015
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Process

  • Employee referral to phone screen

  • Phone interview with web coding (algorithm + SQL) via coderpad.io

  • In-person interview with data structure/algorithm coding, SQL coding, a "lunch" that was essentially a compatibility interview, and then a full stack interview that was basically a combination of all three.

Questions

In the phone interview:

  • A pretty basic Python algorithm question. Having read reviews from others here, I assumed I'd get pitched a softball and then a harder question. I was able to solve it within the first several minutes but spent the rest of the session trying to optimize the solution.
  • Some basic SQL questions on joins and such. I answered probably five or six questions. Both of these interviews seemed like minimum bar screens.

For the in-person interview:

  • A more difficult Python question, and I had to code on a whiteboard. It was a pretty simple sorting question that was easy to solve but less trivial to optimize.
  • More difficult SQL questions. I struggled here but I was a bit weaker in SQL, so I figured as much. This progressed into dashboard design.
  • Lunch was at a cafe on campus and delicious. The interviewer was just asking me about work experience and culture, and it seemed like just a general personality compatibility test.
  • The Full Stack interview was my favorite part and a lot of fun. Without giving too much away, I was given a realistic problem and tasked with conceptualizing the solution in real time, from start to finish, on a whiteboard. It was a mix of coding and conceptual and seemed to be meant to test product sense.

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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.

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