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1. What month and year do you expect to graduate? 2. Please provide a 2-3 sentence overview of a data project (internship, school or personal project) that you previously worked on. 3. What (technically) was your role in the project? Please explain how you used data to help make a decision or drive a result? 4. What ended up being (or will hopefully be) the overall impact of the project? 5. Did you do any kind of experimental design, hypothesis testing, A/B testing or multivariate testing? 6. What is your strongest coding language? 7. Are you actively interviewing, and do you have any deadlines (pending offers, etc.)? Next question, is a Data Science Product exercise. This is a chance to get into the mindset of our data scientists as they work on FB products. 8. Let’s say we want to figure out for any Facebook (or Instagram) user, who their best friend is so we can prioritize showing their content in the News Feed. What product signals and metrics (please max at 5) would you use to determine who a user’s best friend is? In addition, which metric is the most important and why?
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Data Analyst Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.6★
Nov 20, 2021

1. What month and year do you expect to graduate? 2. Please provide a 2-3 sentence overview of a data project (internship, school or personal project) that you previously worked on. 3. What (technically) was your role in the project? Please explain how you used data to help make a decision or drive a result? 4. What ended up being (or will hopefully be) the overall impact of the project? 5. Did you do any kind of experimental design, hypothesis testing, A/B testing or multivariate testing? 6. What is your strongest coding language? 7. Are you actively interviewing, and do you have any deadlines (pending offers, etc.)? Next question, is a Data Science Product exercise. This is a chance to get into the mindset of our data scientists as they work on FB products. 8. Let’s say we want to figure out for any Facebook (or Instagram) user, who their best friend is so we can prioritize showing their content in the News Feed. What product signals and metrics (please max at 5) would you use to determine who a user’s best friend is? In addition, which metric is the most important and why?

There were mostly questions concerning SQL and product sense: some easy technical questions like 'What commend would you use to sort results in descending order?' and 'What types of joins are there?', as well as two not difficult coding problems where I had to join tables, filter out some rows, group filtered ones and order results; when it comes to product sense, that part was quite difficult: they asked what metrics would you use to find out if two users are friends in real life and how would you find out if some user has more real-life friends than not-real-life among his friends on facebook.
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Data Science Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.6★
Nov 17, 2020

There were mostly questions concerning SQL and product sense: some easy technical questions like 'What commend would you use to sort results in descending order?' and 'What types of joins are there?', as well as two not difficult coding problems where I had to join tables, filter out some rows, group filtered ones and order results; when it comes to product sense, that part was quite difficult: they asked what metrics would you use to find out if two users are friends in real life and how would you find out if some user has more real-life friends than not-real-life among his friends on facebook.

- Operator that combines and returns the result-set (rows) retrieved by two or more select statements? - How would you determine the customer service quality of Facebook Marketplace B2B2C through the chatbox? - Some basic AVG() SQL question - Learn how to use SQL CTE for basic aggregate functions
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Data Science Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.6★
Dec 5, 2020

- Operator that combines and returns the result-set (rows) retrieved by two or more select statements? - How would you determine the customer service quality of Facebook Marketplace B2B2C through the chatbox? - Some basic AVG() SQL question - Learn how to use SQL CTE for basic aggregate functions

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