Impetus Technologies Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jun 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For the Hadoop developer fit, I had a Skype interview where the discussion started by covering my experience and skills.

The questions quickly moved into Hive and the MapReduce process, and I was given a scenario to think through. As the conversation went on, the questions became more technical—moving from concepts into more detailed areas like syntax and real-time style problems.

That technical focus matched what I later heard about this kind of screening: it often involved Hadoop-related topics like Hive and Pig, along with puzzles, and sometimes the later stage added more puzzle questions mixed with less coherent management-style prompts.

I ended up getting an offer in the end, and the thing that stuck

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