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Nothing complicated. Just questions about Spark and how it works internally. There was a question on how I choose between different approaches at work (tradeoffs, etc.). The "unexpected" coding session was more like a code review session in reality.
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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Cloudera

4.1
May 21, 2026

Nothing complicated. Just questions about Spark and how it works internally. There was a question on how I choose between different approaches at work (tradeoffs, etc.). The "unexpected" coding session was more like a code review session in reality.

One exercise I particularly enjoyed was identify a bug in code and providing feedback as if it was a code review. It felt like a more accurate way to measure the day-to-day work than some other more artificial interview questions
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Indeed

3.8
Mar 24, 2023

One exercise I particularly enjoyed was identify a bug in code and providing feedback as if it was a code review. It felt like a more accurate way to measure the day-to-day work than some other more artificial interview questions

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