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Data Engineer Interview Experience

December 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter reached out after finding my profile on LinkedIn.

First, there was a phone call with the recruiter. I described my work experience, and he described the role I would be applying for. He told me I would be a good fit for a phone technical screen with an engineer.

I was provided with review materials for a phone technical screen that was going to be 1/2 SQL and 1/2 programming. The engineer I did the phone screen with mentioned that Facebook was generally good about getting back to candidates in a timely fashion regarding next steps.

A month after my phone screen, I reached out to the recruiter to see if I had proceeded to the next phase (I was under the impression I had not, based on the time that had passed), and I didn't receive a response.

After another week passed, I reached out once again, asking about next steps. The recruiter did respond, stating that they had reviewed my resume but had decided not to move forward with my application. It sounded a bit like the recruiter didn't even remember I had done the phone technical screen, by the way he responded.

Questions

SQL questions where you are provided a schema and asked to provide queries to output data in the format requested by the interviewer. After that, the interview moved to general data structures and algorithms questions. 45 minutes total.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 347 interview experiences for the Meta Data Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

15%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive63%
Neutral24%
Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Meta's Data Engineer interview process in United States.

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