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A few generic questions around Data Warehousing/ETL approach, scenario based questions. One interviewer was asking questions from Interview Q&A website, was not happy if answers and terms didn't match exactly. You don't ask syntactical questions to experienced staff who can lookup manual in a minute and figure things out.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Acrisure

2.9★
Nov 2, 2022

A few generic questions around Data Warehousing/ETL approach, scenario based questions. One interviewer was asking questions from Interview Q&A website, was not happy if answers and terms didn't match exactly. You don't ask syntactical questions to experienced staff who can lookup manual in a minute and figure things out.

This was a Scala position but they were open to allowing me to use Python or Java for the interview. Standard data eng questions - SQL, Spark, ETL, and some not so standard like API and microservices. I have not been actively interviewing, some of these questions were hard as I was very rusty.
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Senior Software Engineer, Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Demandbase

3.7★
Sep 26, 2023

This was a Scala position but they were open to allowing me to use Python or Java for the interview. Standard data eng questions - SQL, Spark, ETL, and some not so standard like API and microservices. I have not been actively interviewing, some of these questions were hard as I was very rusty.

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