Great product, bad role
Great product, bad role
Facebook's products are interesting and fast-moving. The challenge of moving fast enables everyone to adapt and learn quickly. The product-building process is state-of-the-art, and people with the most expertise are able to contribute to their fullest. If you are not a data engineer, you should consider joining Facebook.
The data engineering role is not well defined. It lies somewhere between an engineer and a data scientist. This means data engineering is expendable and needed only in the most egregious of situations. In these situations, the kind of work you get to do is awesome. But in most other cases, DEs are doing grunt work. And DE managers are doing everything possible to show grunt work is great to satisfy the performance cycles.
Data engineering execution should try to understand problems and take ownership rather than blaming everything on line managers.
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Data Engineer Manager
In the emails exchanged prior to my on-site interview, I usually only received a response from recruiting when I followed up again after their initial reply. My recruiter also did not show up for my scheduled phone call. Once I arrived for the on-si
Data Engineer Manager
Phone screen round: 45 minutes technical, 30 minutes behavioral. The technical portion was broken down into: * 15 minutes of data modeling * 15 minutes of Python * 15 minutes of SQL Contrary to some advice I've seen, my interviewer did not want me
Data Engineer Manager
The initial and second interviews went well. The third one, a technical interview, was confirmed by HR that the manager would not require a coding test. I thought they would only ask SQL questions, but on top of SQL, they asked me about coding, which
Data Engineer Manager
Menlo Park, California, United StatesDecember 1, 2018In the emails exchanged prior to my on-site interview, I usually only received a response from recruiting when I followed up again after their initial reply. My recruiter also did not show up for my scheduled phone call. Once I arrived for the on-si
Data Engineer Manager
United StatesJuly 1, 2025Phone screen round: 45 minutes technical, 30 minutes behavioral. The technical portion was broken down into: * 15 minutes of data modeling * 15 minutes of Python * 15 minutes of SQL Contrary to some advice I've seen, my interviewer did not want me
Data Engineer Manager
United StatesOctober 1, 2016The initial and second interviews went well. The third one, a technical interview, was confirmed by HR that the manager would not require a coding test. I thought they would only ask SQL questions, but on top of SQL, they asked me about coding, which
