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      Big Data Cloud Support Engineer Interview

      Jan 6, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Dublin, Dublin
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin)

      Interview

      Entretien RH / recruteur : vérifie le CV, la motivation et l’adéquation avec les Leadership Principles. Entretien technique / opérationnel : teste les compétences techniques et analytiques, et les comportements via la méthode STAR

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Do you know TCP handshake?
      Answer question

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      Cloud Support Engineer Big Data Interview

      Feb 13, 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2020

      Interview

      3 - Interview Process. 30 min with-Hr, 1 Hour with a Cloud Support Engineer. 4 Hour Interview with 4-6 People. 1 - 2 Manager, 4-6 Cloud Support Engineer. Very intense interview they asked 3-4 Question related to the LeaderShip Principles. If you know spark brush up on a lot of spark/emr related questions.

      Interview questions [13]

      Question 1

      Name four Spark Action and Transform?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      What is the difference between Data Set and Dataframe
      Answer question

      Question 3

      What is Merge on Read and Copy on Write
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      What are the 3 V's
      2 Answers

      Question 5

      What is broadcasting in detail not what it does but concept
      Answer question

      Question 6

      Whats are different the different spark Mode and explain them
      1 Answer

      Question 7

      What is the difference between Spark Driver and Executor
      Answer question

      Question 8

      What is Spark Parallelism and how do you use it
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      Question 9

      What Your Benefit to the Company?
      1 Answer

      Question 10

      Tell me about a time where you failed and how did you overcome it
      1 Answer

      Question 11

      Tell me about a time where you dealt with a customer obsession
      1 Answer

      Question 12

      Asked about Linux commands to how to check memory
      1 Answer

      Question 13

      What is Spark repartition, Partitionby, and Coalesce
      1 Answer
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      Big Data Cloud Support Engineer Interview

      Jul 16, 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Jun 2020

      Interview

      phone screening: general introduction; explanation of current role; used technologies; then technical questions (see below); finally opportunity to ask questions and I got some advice on what to improve; overall good experience, very friendly and helpful interviewer;

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Hadoop mapreduce how HDFS works, command to check if replicated data lost from partition how YARN works how Spark works, what happens after you submit a job HIVE and buckets RDD vs DataFrame vs DataSet monitoring tools for YARN
      Answer question
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