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      Data Scientist Interview

      May 22, 2017
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Meta in May 2017

      Interview

      Recruiter conversation and phone screen, one phone screen via video call. At first I was pleased because the recruiter sent a detailed preparation guide and I had a few weeks to prepare. I spent some time preparing nearly every day, making sure I was well versed in R, which was the language that I requested for the phone screen. The recruiter emphasized that product sense was important, so I spent time thinking and reading about metrics necessary to evaluate products and how that may be applied to Facebook. In the end, I think I would have been better off without the interview preparation guide, as it turned out to be completely misleading. The interview contained no probability questions, even though that was mentioned as part of it, and no product sense questions. There was only one fairly straightforward data engineering type question. The rest was simply SQL questions, even though I had requested R as the language. I was able to use R to answer the SQL question, and then for the second follow-up questions switched to SQL, but really the type of question would be best answered with SQL. The interview guide said that if you requested R, then they would be testing dplyr/apply functions, but that wasn't really true. The SQL question was not straightforward, but fairly challenging. I was thrown off because I was expecting a data analysis question using R, and I was a bit nervous under pressure. I was able to answer the questions, but not without stumbling a bit. The whole process was frustrating because I write fairly complex SQL questions often as part of my job, and have never had a query I couldn't figure out. But under the pressure of the interview, I didn't perform spectacularly. I wish I had not spent time on the other parts of the interview prep and just focused on SQL, and I probably would have been more successful. So beware the prep guide may lead you astray.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      SQL question One basic data engineering related question
      1 Answer
      15

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      May 23, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Menlo Park, CA
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
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      I interviewed at Meta (Menlo Park, CA)

      Interview

      The Interview Process is very structured - First Tech Screening round - 45 mins (usually can extend a bit depending on the interviewer) - 2 SQL Questions ( Medium to Hard ) - based on Joins Full Loop - 4 rounds 45 mins each. - SQL - Behavioral - Analytical Execution - stats & prob, A/B testing, case study - Analytical Reasoning - Case study

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      Data Scientist Interview

      May 15, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Meta

      Interview

      A friend who worked at Meta recommended I apply, which led to a direct connection with the hiring team. My interview journey included a technical screen focused on product metrics and a behavioral interview. The final round faced me with a practical question about measuring success for a new push notification feature. Funny enough, I had found similar questions in the company-specific prompt section on PracHub, which helped me approach it confidently. Ultimately, I received an offer but decided to decline it for personal reasons.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you measure the success of a new push notification feature on Instagram? Walk through your primary metric, guardrail metrics, how you'd design the A/B test (randomization unit, sample size, duration), and the tradeoffs between short-term engagement lift and long-term retention impact.
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      Data Scientist Interview

      May 13, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Meta

      Interview

      Completed 3 rounds of the process, which includes the initial recruiter screen, technical, full loop, and team matching. Couldn't move past the full loop interview. The interview was very engaging, and I actually enjoyed working through the cases. No crazy questions.

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