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      Data Engineer Interview

      Apr 11, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meta in Apr 2016

      Interview

      The interview process was pretty streamlined. First, I received an email from the HR asking for an informal discussion. After I set up a time, we had almost a 50 minutes discussion about what I have worked in past and what are my skill sets. Also, the HR explained me about the job profile in detail. After a couple of weeks, the HR confirmed to me about the telephonic rounds. There were two back to back telephonic rounds, coding followed by an SQL round. For the first round, I was called around 5 minutes late for the interview. The interviewer asked me about my previous work experience and then asked to start coding. The questions were pretty simple and I could answer all of them. There was one that required little thinking but I eventually solved it. I already had my next round of interview scheduled so the interviewer said that he could not ask me further questions. It was a very abrupt end to my interview although I solved all the questions. The second round was on SQL queries and this was really easy to crack. The queries were complex but I knew the concept and so could form them correctly. Only the last question asked for little complex related to cross join. I managed to answer but could not get the correct answer. This interview lasted longer than 45 minutes. The interviewer was very friendly and communicated very professionally. After both the rounds, I was very confident that I had cracked the interview as I could solve all the questions asked. But unfortunately, I got an email after a week saying that I have not cleared the round. This was very surprising to me as I kept wondering where I went wrong. I asked the recruiter about a feedback but she refused to give any. I don't know if it's their mistake or what but I still wonder what went wrong.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Questions were based on Arraylist and its manipulations. SQL questions were related to joins and fetching highest salary and stuff. pretty basic.
      1 Answer
      5

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      Neutral experience
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      Meta interviews FAQs

      • Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Meta with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Data Engineer roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 365 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Meta overall takes an average of 31 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Meta as a Data Engineer according to 365 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  41%

        One on one interview:  20%

        Skills test:  16%

        Presentation:  9%

        Group panel interview:  5%

        Other:  3%

        IQ intelligence test:  2%

        Background check:  2%

        Personality test:  2%

        Drug test:  1%

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