Started off with the recruiter screening - basic background, process overview, and prep tips. The recruiter was super helpful and gave solid advice, especially around focusing on STAR format for behaviorals and brushing up on SQL for the technicals. Pre-screens included a leadership behavioral round (mostly about team challenges, conflict resolution) and a technical screening. The technical one was SQL-heavy with some pseudocode—things like data modeling and basic algorithms. The onsite loop had five rounds: two technical ones (one on metrics + schema design with SQL, and another brainstorming data problems), system design (measuring customer satisfaction for a food delivery app — schema management and trade-offs were key), leadership (a mix of team management and mentoring stories), and ownership (basically stakeholder management and prioritization). Honestly, the leadership and system design rounds felt like the biggest tests. Spent a lot of time practicing on LC and running mock interviews with Meta coaches on Prepfully, which really helped. Process was long but no complaints though. Recruiters kept me in the loop, and feedback came quickly after each round; TC was also great - inline with the expectations.

The first round is 2 interviews - first one is general communication, experience and second is a coding assessment process. Ask your recruiter what's the best way to prepare, generally leetcode East/Medium questions are good.