Spotify
Music streaming platform using ML for personalization and recommendation.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Data Engineer
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Technical
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hard
In a distributed join, how do you handle data skew? For example, joining a 'Streams' table with an 'Artists' table where Taylor Swift has 100x more streams than others.
#Spark
#Data Skew
#Distributed Computing
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the difference between Apache Beam's Windowing and Triggers. Give a use case for each.
#Apache Beam
#Streaming
#GCP Dataflow
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What is the difference between a broadcast join and a shuffle join in Spark or Scio? When would you use each?
#Spark
#Scio
#Joins
#Performance
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