I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Citi (Irving, TX) in Sep 2024
Interview
First technical round was over video call, mostly asked about experience and tools that I worked on based on the profile.
Second technical round was a F2F with 2 leaders, One who went on by asking technical questions starting from migration projects to optimization techniques. Other person asked about overall project scope and agile methodologies.
Oozie based questions, where to schedule, how to call oozie, where to view oozie job execution, what does coordinator do, how to set dependency when executing few actions.
It has multiple rounds each of 30 mins or depends on the manager who is taking it.
There are 4 rounds including the HR rounds.
Questions were logical needs critical thinking one should have development knowledge like pyspark, sql
The technical interview lasts about one hour. The interviewer is not an employee of the company, but from a third-party interviewing platform, and the interview time is quite flexible interview time is quite flexible.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interview mainly focused on SQL, Python coding, and some general technical Data Engineering questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Citi (Toronto, ON) in Mar 2026
Interview
screening, karat interview scenario based. Coding interview for the first round and a lot of scenario-based questions even on ML on 2nd interview. both the interview lasted 1 hr and 2nd interview barely gave 10 min for sql 3 cte query