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Round 1: Technical questions - Common data structures and algorithms (search in sorted list, search in linked list, red-black-tree) - How would you implement a priority queue? - HashMap collision resolution strategies - Examples of probabilistic data structures, advantages - Difference between functional and imperative programming. - How would you represent a graph in-memory? - Difference between columnar and row based database. - Difference between inner and outer join. - Explain MapReduce.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Spotify

4
Aug 18, 2022

Round 1: Technical questions - Common data structures and algorithms (search in sorted list, search in linked list, red-black-tree) - How would you implement a priority queue? - HashMap collision resolution strategies - Examples of probabilistic data structures, advantages - Difference between functional and imperative programming. - How would you represent a graph in-memory? - Difference between columnar and row based database. - Difference between inner and outer join. - Explain MapReduce.

Ask your knowledge of how Spark works. Also ask if you are familiar with cloud technology. Some other stuff like dataware house and Airflow. The question is confusing sometime though, as the interviewer sometimes cannot tell different concepts apart.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Ninja Van

3.4
Jan 14, 2024

Ask your knowledge of how Spark works. Also ask if you are familiar with cloud technology. Some other stuff like dataware house and Airflow. The question is confusing sometime though, as the interviewer sometimes cannot tell different concepts apart.

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