Fractal·Data Engineer

Fractal Data Engineer interview experience

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India2020 interview · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got a link to a written test back in December 2020.

It was a mix of SQL-focused programming questions plus a few general programming questions, along with MCQs that covered SQL and data warehousing concepts like Hive, Spark, and Kafka. A recruiter contacted me shortly after to explain what came next, which turned into three technical rounds and one HR round.

My first technical round lasted about an hour and focused heavily on Hive and Spark, including Hive optimization ideas and SQL queries with window functions. The second round ran around 45 minutes and covered AWS EMR and Databricks, plus practical topics like splitting files and

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