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Data Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

March 1, 2025
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Spoke to the recruiter, and a technical screening was set up.

  • 5 min: Introduction
  • 25 min: SQL (Know your basics: Joins, Aggregation, CTEs, Window functions)
  • 25 min: Python (Data structures thoroughly and string manipulation)
  • 5 min: Questions

Questions

  1. Retrieve the top 10 customers who purchased the highest total number of books in 2019, considering only non-refunded sales.

  2. Calculate the average total purchase amount, segmented by customer reward membership status and whether the purchase was made during a defined season (after Nov 15) or non-season period.

  3. Determine what percentage of total book sales (by revenue) is contributed by the top 5 most expensive books.

  4. Identify customers who have made purchases on more than one distinct day and bought a combined total of more than 3 books on their first and last purchase dates.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 20 interview experiences for the Meta Data Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

15%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive40%
Neutral30%
Negative30%

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

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