TCS·Systems Engineer

TCS Systems Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into the interview with a pretty clear sense that it would be data-engineering focused.

The questions started around Spark and covered related technologies and concepts in a broad but connected way.

I was asked about Spark basics and the surrounding ecosystem—PySpark, SQL, and general data engineering fundamentals. They also touched on cloud and tooling like Azure, ADLS, and Databricks. Beyond that, the interview included topics like Spark SQL, Hive, Hadoop, Unix/Linux, and even some shell scripting. There was also a small coding component, and then it shifted into questions tied to my project.

The overall difficulty felt average to me, but it was wide-ranging, so I had to

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