facebook data engineer

Recently I had interview with FB.

Status: Experienced
Position: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Menlo Park, CA

Technical phone screen (1 hour):
Questions asked Python:

  1. find the average length of word in sentence

sentence = “Hi my name is Bob”
words = sentence.split()
print(words)
average=1.0* sum(len(word)for word in words)/len(words)
print(average)

2)Validate the ip address

def validate(ip):
valid_digit=set(‘0123456789’)
a=ip.split(’.’)
if len(a)!=4:
return False
for x in a:
if not x.isdigit():
return False
i=int(x)
if i < 0 or i> 255:
return False
return True
print(validate(‘127.0.0.b’))

  1. for a list array=[[‘D’],[‘A’,‘B’],[‘A’,‘C’],[‘C’,‘A’]] find the number of followers

Ans
D=0
A=2
c=1

I could only answer two sql questions. they gave a schema similar to the example provided in the mail

  1. find the sales people with average sale greater then 3 atleast selling two products.

Answer is first find the average then having clause.

  1. what is the total percentage of sale of a product compared to sales.

Facebook technical screening is one of the easiest interview to clear.