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The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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Technical
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hard
How do you handle data skewness in a Spark join operation where one specific company ID has millions of records while others have very few?
#Apache Spark
#Performance Tuning
#Data Skew
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain how Kafka handles consumer offsets. What happens if a consumer fails before committing the offset?
#Apache Kafka
#Fault Tolerance
#Distributed Systems
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How does Apache Spark achieve fault tolerance? Explain the concept of RDD lineage.
#Apache Spark
#Architecture
#Fault Tolerance
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the concept of 'Shuffle' in Apache Spark. Why is it an expensive operation and how can you minimize it?
#Apache Spark
#Performance Tuning
#Distributed Computing
Data Engineer
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Technical
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hard
What is Apache Iceberg and how does it solve the limitations of the traditional Hive metastore in a data lake?
#Data Lake
#Apache Iceberg
#Table Formats
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