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During the screening round, the recruiter asked me about my motivation to apply at Yepoda and few other questions related to my past experience. The case study included building end-to-end data pipelines including data ingestion, modeling using dbt and orchestrating using Airflow. The third interview was reviewing the case study for a short while and then jumping straight into discussing about the role, the team, past experience which I answered using the STAR format. At the end, we had 15 minutes wherein I asked questions.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Yepoda

2.7
Dec 16, 2025

During the screening round, the recruiter asked me about my motivation to apply at Yepoda and few other questions related to my past experience. The case study included building end-to-end data pipelines including data ingestion, modeling using dbt and orchestrating using Airflow. The third interview was reviewing the case study for a short while and then jumping straight into discussing about the role, the team, past experience which I answered using the STAR format. At the end, we had 15 minutes wherein I asked questions.

5th highest salary department wise using SQL and pyspark. Some questions related to Bigquery and project architecture and data migration related. Questions related to Pipeline design and job performance. Desing considerations during migrating the data from hive to Bigquery.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at IBM

3.9
Aug 31, 2024

5th highest salary department wise using SQL and pyspark. Some questions related to Bigquery and project architecture and data migration related. Questions related to Pipeline design and job performance. Desing considerations during migrating the data from hive to Bigquery.

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