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Data Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

September 1, 2020
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Process

I was initially contacted by a DS recruiter, but I asked to be referred to a DE recruiter instead.

I had a call with the DE recruiter, who gave me a briefing for the phone screen. I then completed the phone screen a couple of weeks later. It was a pretty easy interview; as other posts mention, it consisted of 10 questions – 5 in SQL and 5 in Python/Java. All questions were the same or similar to those listed in other reviews.

I received news that I would be moving to the next round a couple of days later. I was then referred to another recruiter who would be leading me through the virtual onsite process. I had an initial hour-long call to discuss the next round of interviews and then scheduled it for a few weeks later.

The interview was not too difficult, featuring 4 rounds:

  • 3 technical rounds with some product sense, SQL, and Python questions
  • 1 behavioral round

A week later, my recruiter contacted me and asked me to complete a follow-up behavioral interview because there were doubts about whether I was more interested in DE than DS. I scheduled that interview for a couple of days later. I received the final decision about 10 days after the follow-up interview.

Overall, it was a very good experience! Everyone was super helpful and friendly, and the interviews were as expected after the calls with the recruiters.

Questions

See other posts; mine were similar/the same for the phone screen.

Had to sign an NDA for the virtual onsite, so I can't give details.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 21 interview experiences for the Meta Data Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

14%
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

Positive43%
Neutral29%
Negative29%

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

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