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      ICT IV | Senior Big Data Engineer Interview

      Aug 15, 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apple in Aug 2020

      Interview

      The overall interview experience was very bad and it's a waste of time. I would like to mention specifically about the Fitment round. The person who conducts this interview is a very judgemental ,rude and biased person. His first concern was about me that I have switched 4 companies in 9 years how we(interviewer) can assume that I will be in apple for long time. I answered that. Post that he did not ask much questions and ended the interview. The person was from semi-conductor background and was working for Apple 10 years. I do understand that any company can look for long term employees but for that you don't need waste someone's time in weekend. As everything is there in my resume so you can reject it upfront. I asked the interviewer that what is the challenge he solved in last 10 years. He got silent for sometime and then he said that his team did 10 person's work by 5 person. So I could understand that this interviewer does not have any skillset or did not do anything good in his entire career. In India most of the company follow the same resource patterns. Also, this interviewer is from a semi-conductor background and everyone knows the semi-conductor job opportunity in India. I can understand that you have not much options to change the job. I would like to request anyone who is going through this post not to accept Apple Interview and waste your time. Apple India team is nowhere comparable with FB or Google. Basically Apple India is not good for Software Engineers. If you want to reject for this reason please do it at the beginning and no need to waste someone's valuable time.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Discussion around current project and challenges around it. How would you scale the current infrastructure? System design related questions. Write a program to find x number of max elements from m number of sorted arrays. General discussion around your project. Write spark code to find the unique routes from a given flight routes table where there could be individual entry for MumBai --> Kolkata/Kolkata--> Mumbai Write a spark scala code to get the employee who earns highest among employess whose salary is more than avg salary and age is less than the avg age. What is master in Spark? What does appName do in Spark? How the local scheduler work in Apache Airflow? How it differs from Kubernetes? Questions around airflow architecture. Given two programs for word count tell the difference between reduceBykey and groupbyKey?
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