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The most challenging question was: If you have 10 TBs of unstructured customer data , and you need to find some clever ways to extract valuable information of it, What do you do? Explain to me in the most technical level that you think.
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Big Data Engineer

Interviewed at Salesforce

4.1
Jan 16, 2013

The most challenging question was: If you have 10 TBs of unstructured customer data , and you need to find some clever ways to extract valuable information of it, What do you do? Explain to me in the most technical level that you think.

Shared in DescriptionQuestion1) If we have input.csv, we need to find the output. File and desired output are given below. username, mobile user1,999999991:888888882 user3,777777771 user2,777777234:823232351 user5,734452343:943433434:834323434 user1,999999991:9994433777 output user1:3 user2:2 user3:1 Question2) How can we read a csv file into dataframe Question3) Option to modify the encoding while reading a file in Scala Question 4) Optin to modify the timestamp while reading a file Question 5) How to introduce separators like "," while reading a file Question 6) How to infer Schema =============================== Question 7) How have below 2 tables, we need to find out users who visited a bank but didn't make any transactions? -- Visits table: -- +---------+------------+ -- | user_id | visit_date | -- +---------+------------+ -- | 1 | 2020-01-01 | -- | 2 | 2020-01-02 | -- | 12 | 2020-01-01 | -- | 19 | 2020-01-03 | -- | 1 | 2020-01-02 | -- | 2 | 2020-01-03 | -- | 1 | 2020-01-04 | -- | 7 | 2020-01-11 | -- | 9 | 2020-01-25 | -- | 8 | 2020-01-28 | -- +---------+------------+ -- Transactions table: -- +---------+------------------+--------+ -- | user_id | transaction_date | amount | -- +---------+------------------+--------+ -- | 1 | 2020-01-02 | 120 | -- | 2 | 2020-01-03 | 22 | -- | 7 | 2020-01-11 | 232 | -- | 1 | 2020-01-04 | 7 | -- | 9 | 2020-01-25 | 33 | -- | 9 | 2020-01-25 | 66 | -- | 8 | 2020-01-28 | 1 | -- | 9 | 2020-01-25 | 99 | -- +---------+------------------+--------+
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Senior Big Data Engineer

Interviewed at Impetus Technologies

3.8
Jun 21, 2022

Shared in DescriptionQuestion1) If we have input.csv, we need to find the output. File and desired output are given below. username, mobile user1,999999991:888888882 user3,777777771 user2,777777234:823232351 user5,734452343:943433434:834323434 user1,999999991:9994433777 output user1:3 user2:2 user3:1 Question2) How can we read a csv file into dataframe Question3) Option to modify the encoding while reading a file in Scala Question 4) Optin to modify the timestamp while reading a file Question 5) How to introduce separators like "," while reading a file Question 6) How to infer Schema =============================== Question 7) How have below 2 tables, we need to find out users who visited a bank but didn't make any transactions? -- Visits table: -- +---------+------------+ -- | user_id | visit_date | -- +---------+------------+ -- | 1 | 2020-01-01 | -- | 2 | 2020-01-02 | -- | 12 | 2020-01-01 | -- | 19 | 2020-01-03 | -- | 1 | 2020-01-02 | -- | 2 | 2020-01-03 | -- | 1 | 2020-01-04 | -- | 7 | 2020-01-11 | -- | 9 | 2020-01-25 | -- | 8 | 2020-01-28 | -- +---------+------------+ -- Transactions table: -- +---------+------------------+--------+ -- | user_id | transaction_date | amount | -- +---------+------------------+--------+ -- | 1 | 2020-01-02 | 120 | -- | 2 | 2020-01-03 | 22 | -- | 7 | 2020-01-11 | 232 | -- | 1 | 2020-01-04 | 7 | -- | 9 | 2020-01-25 | 33 | -- | 9 | 2020-01-25 | 66 | -- | 8 | 2020-01-28 | 1 | -- | 9 | 2020-01-25 | 99 | -- +---------+------------------+--------+

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