I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA) in Nov 2016
Interview
I interviewed with the Business Intelligence team. The process involved one phone interview (coding + SQL) followed by 4 rounds of interviews at onsite.
Phone interview was easy with medium level SQL and coding questions. The interviewer stressed a lot on running times for the coding questions. I had to offer three different solutions and implement the optimal version of the code.
At onsite, there was one SQL interview, followed by 2 coding interviews. After lunch, a manager conducted an ETL design and metrics interview.
The interviewer, who asked me the map-reduce question was doing some work on his laptop. He hardly paid any attention to the code I was writing on the wall. I had to try hard to get his attention to my code and explain how it works.
The best part of the interview was meeting Guy Bayes, the Data Engineering Director at Facebook. He is such a cool people manager. Instead of interviewing me in the interview room, he took me out for a walk along side the bay next to Facebook's office in MenloPark. He is so awesome.
Guy Bayes is one reason why you should consider joining Facebook.
All the best for your interviews.
5 sql
5 data structure and algorithms
25 mins each
They won't go to the next problem until one is done and expected results are met
Interviewer was very professional and tried to guide to think through the problem
Wen through standard screening call then the TA. The TA was a much higher difficulty then the prep guide. Not so much the difficulty of the question from a technical perspective, but understanding what the question was actually asking for. Example would be a problem like bookstore checkout system, but the explanation of it was sort of vague and the interviewer didn't really help me clear it up.
Starts with a screen, followed by leetcode style SQL+Python questions, Full loop of SQL, Python, SQL plus Python and lastly behavioural round. Every round is also an architecture round in some sense.
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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