I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Visa Inc. (Foster City, CA)
Interview
It was 3 round interview with basic questions on Java, Hadoop, Spark,mapreduce, Pig, Hive. They asked about my previous experience and brief description about previous project . First round was phone interview followed by Skype round and Face to face
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is MapReduce, What is the difference between Hadoop and Traditional RDBMS
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Visa Inc. (Foster City, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Three rounds in total and all three were technical hadoop related rounds. they were friendly and well prepared questions. Each round consisted of having to explain previous use cases. Questions about Spark, Hbase, Impala , Hive, Sqoop and Pig were asked in all the rounds. Overall a very good interview experience.