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Updated 9 Jan 2025

British Petroleum Data Engineer Interview Experiences

5 interviews found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What is the purpose of using Common Table Expressions (CTE) in SQL?

Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Riya Gupta

posted on 26 Nov 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. LRU Cache Implementation

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Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 31 Jul 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 question :

1. Find the longest common subsequence in 2 strings
2. find the 5th highest revenue from the table in last 28 days in a particular region

Round 2 - Coding Test 

I was given a list of book, genre of books and books and rating of books . All list was of equal length n.

There were 2 methods which need to be implemented
1. get highest rating of book by genre . if rating are same then in lexographical order
2. update book rating by book name

Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. These questions were basic
  • Q2. There were lots of imaginative situation given and then I was asked to say what I would do in those situation

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare your DSA and SQL throughly

Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 18 Apr 2023

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Mar 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

First round was online assessment test with programming and aptitude games

Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Group Anagram question
  • Q2. SQL question to get name of employee whose salary is greater than average salary of the department
  • Ans. 

    SQL query to retrieve name of employee with salary greater than department average.

    • Calculate average salary of department using GROUP BY clause

    • Join employee and department tables using department ID

    • Filter employees with salary greater than department average

    • Select employee name

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for British Petroleum Data Engineer interview:
  • Spark
  • Cloud
  • Programming
  • SQL
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I solved all question in technical round 1 with optimal time complexity still they rejected me to get next rounds.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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 (1)

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 Software Engineer

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 Senior Software Engineer

 (2)

 Senior Software Engineer 2

 (1)

 Senior Engineer

 (2)

Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image nachiket rajput

posted on 17 Jan 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Aptitude test including SQL and Python

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - About data structure.

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed in May 2024.

Round 1 - Technical 

(6 Questions)

  • Q1. SQL table distributions.
  • Q2. ADF switching questions?
  • Q3. How do you optimize the performance?
  • Ans. 

    Performance optimization in data engineering involves tuning queries, indexing, partitioning, and utilizing appropriate hardware.

    • Tune queries by optimizing SQL code, using appropriate joins, and avoiding unnecessary operations.

    • Utilize indexing to speed up data retrieval by creating indexes on frequently queried columns.

    • Partition data to distribute it across multiple nodes or servers for parallel processing.

    • Utilize appr...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. What is stored procedure?
  • Ans. 

    A stored procedure is a set of SQL statements that can be saved and reused in a database management system.

    • Stored procedures are used to perform a specific task or set of tasks in a database.

    • They can accept input parameters and return output parameters.

    • Stored procedures can improve performance by reducing the amount of data sent between the database and the application.

    • They can also enhance security by controlling acce...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Ranking functions in SQL?
  • Ans. 

    Ranking functions in SQL are used to assign a rank to each row based on a specific criteria.

    • Ranking functions include RANK(), DENSE_RANK(), and ROW_NUMBER()

    • RANK() assigns a unique rank to each distinct row

    • DENSE_RANK() assigns a unique rank to each distinct row without gaps

    • ROW_NUMBER() assigns a unique sequential integer to each row

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Modelling questions.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Nov 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Technical round you need to face interview: Telephonic or face to face, you need to prepare your technical part what they are looking for Data Engineer they will ask about data and application they are usi...
  • Q2. GC Calibration, sensors and transmitters, system related questions.
  • Q3. Rig site and structure
  • Q4. Overall skill whatever you have experience
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Yourself and documentation

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Jindal Drilling & Industries Data Engineer interview:
  • Be smart
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just see job profile and match with your career path. Answer whatever you know.
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic data science and statistics interview questions along with their mathematical understanding.
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Data science questions with mathematical understanding
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. STAR type questions
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jun 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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Round 2 - Case Study 

Asked Real Time Scenario to create Microservice for Train and Station information. The interviewer asked what are the properties needs to be considered for evaluating service.

Core Java 11 questions: Webservices, Improvement in JVM, Threads

Java 8: Asked to write a program based on Group By Scenario.

The interview lasts around 2 hrs.

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Managerical round: Asked about current project details, The reason to join BH, Scenario based question on LinkedList vs ArrayList
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. It was easy. The HR told about company policies

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Cover Spring Boot, MySQL more
2. Go to BH page to know more, This will help u to answer questions will be asked in Manager Round.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Resume Based questions and ML & DL basics
  • Q2. BERT and CNN models

British Petroleum Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in British Petroleum Data Engineer interview?
British Petroleum interview process usually has 1-2 rounds. The most common rounds in the British Petroleum interview process are Technical, Coding Test and Resume Shortlist.
What are the top questions asked in British Petroleum Data Engineer interview?

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British Petroleum Data Engineer Interview Process

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