Netflix
Streaming platform with a data-driven culture and freedom & responsibility ethos.
3 Rounds
~14 Days
Hard
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Data Engineer
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Explain how Apache Iceberg handles schema evolution and hidden partitioning compared to traditional Hive tables. Why is this critical for managing Netflix's petabyte-scale data lake on AWS S3?
#Apache Iceberg
#Data Lakes
#AWS S3
#Table Formats
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