Fractal·Data Engineer

Fractal Data Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, my process moved pretty fast into two back-to-back coding interviews.

The first coding round focused on DSA in Python/PySpark, and the second one was DSA-style work in SQL. I remember both feeling fairly demanding, but still aligned with core data-engineering fundamentals rather than trick puzzles.

Once the two coding rounds were done, I had the hiring-manager stage that blended technical and managerial discussion. That round felt more like unpacking how I think through problems—my prior work, how I’d approach work end-to-end, and the reasoning behind my decisions. The last step was a system design interview with a two-person panel. Overall it felt like a

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