I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at HCL in Feb 2024
Interview
I was contacted by the HR of the company directly and schedule the interview. Best part is the interview was scheduled on weekends. It was a virtual interview. I was instructed to code in the interview. Since, the requirement was of PySpark and SQL Data Engineer, I was given questions mostly on SQL and PySpark
Interview questions [7]
Question 1
Have I worked in Agile methodology? And What is Agile?
data
Name | Age
Sai | 28
Mouni | 25
Ram | 20
Above is a dataset, and do the following functions.
Q.1-read the data
Q.2-create dataframe
Q.3-print schema
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at HCL (Bangalore Rural) in Aug 2024
Interview
During the interview, I demonstrated my problem-solving skills through examples. I connected my background to the role, answered questions confidently, and expressed enthusiasm for the company's mission and values and hello good bye.
Every thing went smooth in 2 rounds of interview. First I got the call from Recruitment agent and collect all the required information . After two days same person come up the with interview slot for the Data Engineer role. Faced 2 rounds of technical and 1 round of HR discussion. 1. Technical 2. Technical and managerial 3. HR and pay discussion
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Spark Architecture Spark optimizations Techniques Memory Management in Python Threads in Python
