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      Big Data Engineer Interview

      May 21, 2019
      Anonymous employee
      New York, NY
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Fractal (New York, NY)

      Interview

      The communication was very prompt for all the 6rounds of interview. 1st- online coding test, 2nd -Technical,3rd-Technical,4th-Discussion with the Big Data head,5th-HR discussion, 6th-Online Aptitude test. All of these rounds were either Telephonic/Skype which made the process more comfortable without the travel overhead. The whole experience was worthwhile especially the Technical Discussions.Questions were primarily on the architecture and concepts of Spark,Yarn,Hadoop and Scala.

      Interview questions [13]

      Question 1

      function Currying
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      Question 2

      case class
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      Question 3

      traits
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      Question 4

      performance tuning -spark apps
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      Question 5

      stages in Spark
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      Question 6

      cap theorem
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      Question 7

      hotspotting in hbase
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      Question 8

      Kafka architecture
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      Question 9

      hadoop high availability architecture
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      Question 10

      Hive joins(not SQL)
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      Question 11

      paraquet vs avro vs orc
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      Question 12

      yarn architecture
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      Question 13

      deploy mode in spark
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      Fractal response
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      Thank you for sharing your valuable feedback regarding your experience with Fractal. We are so pleased to hear the process was a positive one for you. Congrats on the offer and welcome to the family! Fractal HC Team

      Other Big Data Engineer Interview Reviews for Fractal

      Big Data Engineer Interview

      Sep 1, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Fractal (Bengaluru) in Aug 2021

      Interview

      The interview process was very smooth. It had 1 technical test(includes python and SQL questions) on hacker earth followed by 2 technical round and 1 HR round. The whole process took 10 days.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I had applied for big data role so mainly questions were asked on concepts of spark optimization techniques, SQL queries, hive file formats, Spark configuration, Python, Projects you have worked on which includes academic project as well. Be confident with your answers
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      1

      Big Data Engineer Interview

      Jan 19, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      Declined offer
      Positive experience

      Big Data Engineer Interview

      Jan 27, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Fractal in Dec 2020

      Interview

      The whole process was very seamless and HR was very friendly. The difficulty level is intermediate and all the interviewers were very polite. Enjoyed the interview process. Only negative is they take a bit time to complete the whole process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Hive Schema evolution related questions
      1 Answer
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Fractal (Bengaluru)

      Interview

      There were 4 rounds of interviews and all were virtual due to covid (online programming test, 2 technical interview and finally HR interview). Interview process was very smooth and HR Jesvin was very friendly and reachable. He initially explained all interview process. Panel members are also good.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      About previous projects, Hive & Spark and it's optimization techniques.
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