Big Data Engineer Interview Questions

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On Site: Round1: Detailed discussion on Indexes and how will I use on a given question. (Note study multiple indexes, partial indexes and order) Round 2: (Probably Bar raiser) 1. Top 3 unique salaries and all employees having that per department 2. LC 601 Round 3: Only LP
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Big Data Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Apr 7, 2025

On Site: Round1: Detailed discussion on Indexes and how will I use on a given question. (Note study multiple indexes, partial indexes and order) Round 2: (Probably Bar raiser) 1. Top 3 unique salaries and all employees having that per department 2. LC 601 Round 3: Only LP

Project level discussion which mentioned over resume. Hadoop and Hive question and 1 scenario based Map Reduce question Spark questions like RDD, Dataframe, Data and Spark Streaming with Kafka. SQL and NoSQL questions and queries
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Big Data Engineer

Interviewed at ITC Infotech

4.2
Jul 21, 2018

Project level discussion which mentioned over resume. Hadoop and Hive question and 1 scenario based Map Reduce question Spark questions like RDD, Dataframe, Data and Spark Streaming with Kafka. SQL and NoSQL questions and queries

Very interesting technical questions with the Cognizant manager and CS client, average difficulty about Linux, Certificated, bash, Oracle and BigData like variable substitution, how to connect to remote host and such what is the Oracle DB schema, how to unlock user on table what are the certificates and usage
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Big Data Engineer

Interviewed at Cognizant

3.6
Apr 21, 2018

Very interesting technical questions with the Cognizant manager and CS client, average difficulty about Linux, Certificated, bash, Oracle and BigData like variable substitution, how to connect to remote host and such what is the Oracle DB schema, how to unlock user on table what are the certificates and usage

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