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About project , architectures ,some basics like partition,bucketing,RDD, Data frames, DAG execution engine, why from Hive to Spark SQL, difference between RDD, DataFrames, Datasets, how to make joins between data frames, what to do in spark job if our infrastructure is limited.
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Capgemini

4.2
Nov 30, 2020

About project , architectures ,some basics like partition,bucketing,RDD, Data frames, DAG execution engine, why from Hive to Spark SQL, difference between RDD, DataFrames, Datasets, how to make joins between data frames, what to do in spark job if our infrastructure is limited.

Architecture and ETL process of my previous employment with an example of End to end ETL flow. Couple of questions on AWS services. Learning spirit Differences between batch processing and stream processing. Questions on Kappa architecture Many more relavent to my previous experience mentioned in CV
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at AO

3.1
Mar 24, 2021

Architecture and ETL process of my previous employment with an example of End to end ETL flow. Couple of questions on AWS services. Learning spirit Differences between batch processing and stream processing. Questions on Kappa architecture Many more relavent to my previous experience mentioned in CV

Get rows where price decreased compared to the previous date petrol_details (pump, products, price, date)? [ (PUMP-1, Petrol, 100.05, 2025-01-01), (PUMP-1, Petrol, 98.00, 2025-01-02 ), (PUMP-1, Diesel, 90.00. 2025-01-01 ), (PUMP-1, Diesel, 95.00, 2025-01-02 ), (PUMP-2, Petrol, 101.05, 2025-01-01), (PUMP-2, Petrol, 97.99, 2025-01-02 ), (PUMP-2, Diesel, 90.05. 2025-01-01 ), (PUMP-2, Diesel, 86.00, 2025-01-02 )]
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Infosys

3.6
Jan 9, 2026

Get rows where price decreased compared to the previous date petrol_details (pump, products, price, date)? [ (PUMP-1, Petrol, 100.05, 2025-01-01), (PUMP-1, Petrol, 98.00, 2025-01-02 ), (PUMP-1, Diesel, 90.00. 2025-01-01 ), (PUMP-1, Diesel, 95.00, 2025-01-02 ), (PUMP-2, Petrol, 101.05, 2025-01-01), (PUMP-2, Petrol, 97.99, 2025-01-02 ), (PUMP-2, Diesel, 90.05. 2025-01-01 ), (PUMP-2, Diesel, 86.00, 2025-01-02 )]

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