I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at TechConnect in Mar 2025
Interview
Applied through an agency, Process took 3 weeks, 3 rounds of interview: 1 HR screening, 1 Behavioural/Situational Interview with the department heads and 1 technical interview with the principal data engineers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the biggest mistake you made in your previous work and what did you learn from it.
How do you optimize long running queries?
How would you integrate external API data to a data engineering pipeline?
Explain the medallion architecture and how do you use it in your work.
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at TechConnect (Garching b.München) in Nov 2020
Interview
Tolle Atmosphäre, sehr herzlicher Empfang, ein professionelles Gespräch, schnelles Feedback.
Telefoninterview vorab, dann ein Erstgespräch, das Zweitgespräch innerhalb 3 Tagen, Zusage 2 Tage nach dem Zweitgespräch, seit dem rundum zufrieden mit der Entscheidung dort zu arbeiten
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Wie würden sie sich ihre Traumstelle selbst zusammenstellen?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at TechConnect
Interview
Applied online, Starting with the scheduling of a phone interview with HR, followed by a technical interview with a project leader, with also a HR person present, The interview was through Skype.
The interview went smooth and both people were very nice and polite.
The interview focused on my experience with C++ (mainly C++11) and with embedded systems programming technicalities, such as memory and other resources issues.
In the end, 2 small programs (less than 10 lines) were presented.
In one of them (a simple class) had to identified problems with the code, and how to correct them.
The other one (a templated function), I had to identified its propose.
No further contact.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Are you familiar with design patterns? Can you name a few?