The interview process was designed to assess both foundational and advanced knowledge of Apache Spark, with a strong emphasis on practical problem-solving and performance optimization in distributed data processing systems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are RDDs, DataFrames, and Datasets? When would you use each?
How does Spark handle fault tolerance?
Before the interview, I waited for this interviewer and she was late already. Then, she mentioned if I should continue or resched and I said to continue.
Then after the initial interview, I got a rejection letter out of I dont know if that interviewer had issues with her life.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at ING in May 2023
Interview
Had an HR talk and then a 1h discussion with Romanian and Dutch representatives where I was also asked to do some coding questions. The interview was relatively easy, some of the questions were from the books instead of real life scenarios, but low complexity.