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Practice 1,159 real Meta interview questions for 2026. Covers top categories — Coding & Algorithms, Analytics & Experimentation, Data Manipulation (SQL/Python), Behavioral & Leadership, and System Design — across Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Engineer, and Product Manager roles. Real questions from actual interviews with detailed solutions. Expect a software-engineering-heavy loop: timed algorithmic coding (trees, arrays, graph/maze problems, delimiter/CSV parsing), system-design prompts like leaderboards, flight search and online-judge architectures, and an increasingly common AI-assisted coding round that mirrors real workflows. Data Scientist rounds emphasize product analytics and experimentation—designing tests, diagnosing spend drops and bots, evaluating unconnected content, and writing SQL for multi-account, seller, and vehicle metrics. Machine Learning Engineer questions skew toward recommender and ranking work (place and friend recommendation, sparse-matrix ops, linear-regression derivations, newsfeed dislike models). Data Engineers focus on data modeling, ETL, capacity calculations, reservations/utilization queries, and production SQL/Python tasks. For interview preparation, prioritize timed coding practice, system-design templates, rigorous SQL drills (joins/CTEs/aggregation), clear A/B-testing frameworks, and concise STAR behavioral stories tied to measurable impact.

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Software Engineer

Implement a versioned in-memory DB with CAS and history

In-Memory DB V2: TTL + Compare-And-Set/Delete + Historical Reads Implement an in-memory database keyed by (key, field) supporting TTL, conditional upd...

Coding & Algorithms
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73 people solved
Feb 11, 2026
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Data Scientist

Compare Bayesian and frequentist decisions

A/B Test With Beta–Binomial Posteriors and Decision-Making Under Asymmetric Costs You ran a two-arm A/B test on a binary KPI with independent Beta(1, ...

Statistics & Math
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136 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Data Scientist

Apply sequential testing without p-hacking

Sequential Monitoring With Early Stopping Context: You are planning a two‑sided hypothesis test with continuous monitoring and early stopping for effi...

Statistics & Math
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103 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Data Scientist

Design robust group size limiting for calls

Design the admission-control and enforcement algorithm to limit group-call size under real-world race conditions. Constraints: multiple SFU edges in m...

Coding & Algorithms
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55 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Data Scientist

Choose and compute recommender evaluation metrics

Restaurant Recommender: Offline Evaluation and Modeling Context: You are scoring p(y=1|x) with logistic regression to predict if a user will engage wi...

Machine Learning
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62 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Data Scientist

Decide and experiment on Group Call feature

Assume today is 2025-09-01. You have only one table, calls_daily_agg(date, user_id, country, device_tier, one_to_one_calls_started, one_to_one_call_du...

Analytics & Experimentation
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320 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Data Scientist

Increase posts receiving comments via experimentation

Increase the Share of Posts That Receive a Meaningful Comment You are a data scientist for a consumer social app with posts and comments. Your goal is...

Analytics & Experimentation
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34 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Data Scientist

Tune fraud threshold under review capacity and costs

Fraud Triage Thresholding with Calibrated Scores Context You have a fraud model that outputs a calibrated score s ∈ [0, 1] per account, where s ≈ P(fa...

Machine Learning
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41 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Data Scientist

Compute posterior and event counts in fraud screen

Fake-Account Screening with Threshold on 5 Signals You are designing a rule-based screener that flags an account if at least k of 5 binary signals fir...

Statistics & Math
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43 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Data Scientist

Explain Your Motivation for Career Transition and Role Interest

Explain Your Motivation for Career Transition and Role Interest Behavioral Phone Screen — Data Scientist Context You’re in a recruiter/technical phone...

Behavioral & Leadership
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Aug 4, 2025
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Data Scientist

Evaluate and Experiment with Harmful Content Detection Model

Evaluate and Experiment with Harmful Content Detection Model Evaluating a Harmful-Content Detection Model: Offline and Online Context You are given a ...

Machine Learning
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154 people solved
Aug 4, 2025
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Software Engineer

Schedule and cancel delayed payments

Question Extend an existing in-memory payment system (immediate transfers between accounts, plus a top-N spenders/payers leaderboard) with scheduled p...

System Design
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105 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Data Engineer

Design tables for event-driven metrics

Design a Relational Schema for Consumer-App Event Analytics Context and Assumptions You are designing the event store for a high-volume consumer app. ...

System Design
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78 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Data Scientist

Compute Each Advertiser's Share of Shop Ad Spend

Compute Each Advertiser's Share of Shop Ad Spend You have the following daily advertising table: `text ads_detail( advertiser_id, ad_id, ad_type...

Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)
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15 people solved
May 22, 2026
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Data Scientist

Which clustering algorithm would you use and why

Question You need to cluster users for a social product (e.g. Meta) to discover meaningful groups such as communities, interest groups, or usage segme...

Machine Learning
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60 people solved
Nov 2, 2025
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Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Simulate Monster Team Battles

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to model stateful simulations and implement deterministic battle mechanics with clean data structures an...

Coding & Algorithms
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21 people solved
May 19, 2026
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Software Engineer

Design an online auction platform

Design an Online Auction System Design a scalable, highly available online auction platform where users can list items for auction and other users can...

System Design
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57 people solved
Dec 7, 2025
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Data Scientist Locked

How to test account ranking change

This question evaluates a data scientist's competency in causal inference, experimentation design, metrics selection, and observational analysis using...

Analytics & Experimentation
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69 people solved
Mar 16, 2026
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Product Analyst

Evaluate WhatsApp Group Video Calling

Meta is considering improvements to WhatsApp group video calling. The product team wants to understand whether users need this feature, how to increas...

Analytics & Experimentation
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24 people solved
Mar 15, 2026
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Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Design an ads ranking system with calibration

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, low-latency online machine learning systems for ads ranking, covering competencies i...

ML System Design
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164 people solved
Jan 21, 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How difficult are Meta interview questions?
Meta interview questions span a wide difficulty range because they must screen candidates from entry to senior levels across many functions. Expect coding rounds to map to medium-to-hard algorithmic problems that appear in top 100 problem lists for software engineers, and expect data roles to face challenging SQL, experiment diagnosis, and product-analytics problems that require clean metric definitions. Machine learning roles emphasize recommendation and ranking tradeoffs and model complexity, while data engineers encounter large-scale ETL and modeling puzzles. Difficulty scales with level: entry hires see clearer, bounded problems; senior hires face ambiguous tradeoffs and system-wide thinking.
What is Meta's interview process and where do these questions appear?
Meta typically runs a multi-stage process: recruiter screen, one or two technical screens or an online assessment, a full loop of onsite-style interviews, then debrief, committee review, and offer. The full loop mixes coding, system or product design, role-specific technical rounds, and behavioral interviews. Software-engineer candidates spend most time on coding and design; data scientists focus on SQL, experimentation, and product analytics; machine-learning engineers see modeling and recommendation design; data engineers handle SQL, data modeling, and pipeline questions; PMs get product-design and analytics probes. In 2025–2026 some teams pilot AI-enabled coding rounds.
How should I structure a preparation timeline for a Meta interview?
A focused six-week plan works well: weeks one and two cover fundamentals—data structures, algorithms, SQL basics, and experiment design; weeks three and four emphasize timed problem practice, mock phone screens, and role-specific cases (A/B diagnosis for data scientists, model design for MLEs, ETL modeling for data engineers); week five concentrates on system or product design and behavioral storytelling; week six is for full mock loops, timing, and refining communication. Practice with realistic tools, simulate loop pacing, and schedule a debrief after each mock to iterate on clarity, edge-case handling, and time management.
Which technical subtopics are most commonly tested for each role at Meta?
For Data Scientist interviews the recurring technical themes are product-metric definition, diagnosing experiment and spend drops, counting multi-account interactions, SQL for multi-entity metrics, and ranking or recommendation evaluation such as shop ad ranking. Software-engineer questions frequently focus on timestamped state and versioned systems, leaderboards and ranking, maze/graph traversal and tree/array transforms, delimiter and CSV parsing, and scalable search or flight-search style designs. Machine-learning engineers see place and friend recommendation design, sparse-matrix operations, ranking/loss choices, and feed dislike or personalization models. Data engineers repeatedly face entity modeling for feed and booking data, SQL analytics for utilization and reservations, and capacity-aware aggregation challenges.
What standout tips and common pitfalls should I watch for in Meta interviews?
Start interviews by clarifying requirements and expected outputs, then propose measurable success metrics; this prevents misaligned solutions. For coding, think aloud, handle edge cases, state complexity up front, and write a couple of quick tests. In design rounds quantify load, storage, and tradeoffs rather than vague features. Data roles must define metrics, guardrails, and experiment assumptions before jumping to analysis; common pitfalls are ambiguous metric definitions, peeking at tests, and ignoring instrumentation limits. For AI-assisted coding rounds, use the assistant to accelerate boilerplate but validate logic and corner cases yourself. Finish each answer with a concise summary of impact and tradeoffs.

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