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Given a public financial big data set going back few years in history, compute in the most efficient way using Spark API following financial instruments: biggest winner for each day, highest volume for each day and most traded for each day.
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Software Engineer (Data)

Interviewed at Acorns

3.6
Apr 27, 2019

Given a public financial big data set going back few years in history, compute in the most efficient way using Spark API following financial instruments: biggest winner for each day, highest volume for each day and most traded for each day.

This was a Scala position but they were open to allowing me to use Python or Java for the interview. Standard data eng questions - SQL, Spark, ETL, and some not so standard like API and microservices. I have not been actively interviewing, some of these questions were hard as I was very rusty.
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Senior Software Engineer, Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Demandbase

3.7
Sep 26, 2023

This was a Scala position but they were open to allowing me to use Python or Java for the interview. Standard data eng questions - SQL, Spark, ETL, and some not so standard like API and microservices. I have not been actively interviewing, some of these questions were hard as I was very rusty.

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