Databricks
Unified analytics platform built on Apache Spark for data engineering and ML.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Data Scientist
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Technical
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hard
Explain how Apache Spark handles out-of-memory (OOM) errors during a wide transformation. How would you diagnose and fix an OOM error in a PySpark ML pipeline?
#Apache Spark
#OOM
#Debugging
#Distributed ML
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
Explain the difference between a broadcast hash join and a sort-merge join in Spark. When would you force a broadcast join in a data science pipeline?
#Spark Joins
#Optimization
#Big Data
#Query Planning
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