Data Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

September 17, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The entire process is good, and interviewers are very friendly. The interview contains:

1 Phone Screen
3 VO (product sense + data modeling + SQL + Python)
1 BQ (about 6 questions)

Questions

1 Phone Screen

3 VO (product sense, data modeling, SQL, Python)

1 BQ

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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.

Meta Interview Questions

Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses

Medium

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

Easy

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

Medium

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.

Trees