Data Engineer interview at Meta Logistics: ambiguous technical prompt

After a standard screen, I had a technical conversation with a TA that felt harder than the preparation material. The concepts themselves were not impossibly advanced, but the problem statement was so vague that I struggled to understand what was expected. It resembled a bookstore checkout flow, yet the intended behavior and outputs were unclear and the interviewer did not help resolve that ambig…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.