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Meta Data Science interview questions

based on 615 ratings - Updated Jun 19, 2026

Average interview difficulty

Mostly positive interview experience

How others got an interview

38%
Recruiter
Recruiter
28%
Applied online
Applied online
24%
Employee Referral
Employee Referral
5%
Campus Recruiting
Campus Recruiting
2%
Other
Other
1%
In Person
In Person
1%
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615 interviews

Data Scientist Interview

Dec 17, 2018

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2018

Interview

Applied online and was contacted by a recruiter 3 days later. The process was very well organized; after a few get-to-know-you emails I was invited to do a phone screening with the recruiter, then two stages of interviews.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Consider a brainstorming session about one of Facebook's products and a follow-up technical problem (either a coding problem or statistics) on that topic. Just make sure to be as creative as possible and don't concentrate too much on giving the perfect answer. It's more about assessing how you approach the problems and what your thinking process is.

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Data Scientist Interview

Dec 13, 2018

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Dec 2018

Interview

A recruiter reached out to me to interview for this position. The first part was an initial phone screen with that recruiter. She asked about technical proficiencies, a bit about my experience, and one business/analytic-oriented question. She then quickly organized the second interview, which was a phone screen with a data scientist. He asked one sql question and two data analyst type questions. I thought I did fine but apparently not; got a rejection email immediately after I hung up.

Interview questions [2]

Question 1

What is your favorite product and why? What could be changed about that product and how would you change it?

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Question 2

Marketplace added a feature, how would you test the impact of that feature?

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Data Scientist Interview

Dec 12, 2018

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2018

Interview

First a technical phone interview then an onsite. The person who conducted the interview was rude, made the interview worse.She kept saying, yes your approach is correct but I am looking for another particular solution...

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

2 SQL, 2 coding and 1 product related question. SQL ) There is a messages table showing the messages sent and date information. Find the top 10 users that sent the most messages. Then again the same question but filter the users to the most active users (active after a certain date) Coding) There is a live stream of incoming data. How would you calculate the mean dynamically. How would you calculate the standard deviation. Product) A new feature is going to be implemented in Messenger app, how would you go about it?

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Dec 17, 2018

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2018

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Question 1

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Data Scientist Interview

Dec 13, 2018

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Application

I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Meta (New York, NY) in Dec 2018

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Interview questions [2]

Question 1

What is your favorite product and why? What could be changed about that product and how would you change it?

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Question 2

Marketplace added a feature, how would you test the impact of that feature?

Answer question

Data Scientist Interview

Dec 12, 2018

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Meta in Nov 2018

Interview

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Question 1

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