Meta Data Scientist interview: SQL, product sense, and the full loop

Meta·Data Scientist·Reported Jun 2026
Technical ScreenOnsiteRejectedMedium

A recruiter contacted me first, and I then went through what felt like a standard path from screening to the loop. The initial technical screen covered SQL and product sense. The questions were very much about connecting data work to business decisions. A couple of weeks later, I moved into the full loop.

That loop had four rounds: analytical execution, analytical reasoning, technical skills, and behavioral. SQL came up a lot. I also had to reason about product metrics, experiments, statistics, and explain my thinking clearly. It was not presented as a set of gotcha questions, but the open-ended format meant I had to keep my reasoning organized instead of relying on memorized answers.

The whole process took a while. It ultimately did not work out for me, and I could not get through the full-loop part. What stayed with me was how much weight they put on the reasoning behind an answer, not only on the final calculation.

Location: Menlo Park, CA. Overall feedback: positive. Offer status: no offer.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Meta
Role
Data Scientist
Rounds
Technical Screen → Onsite
Outcome
Rejected
Difficulty
Medium
Date
Reported Jun 2026

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