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Updated 9 Jul 2024

DELTA Data Engineer Interview Experiences

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain Spark architecture
  • Ans. 

    Spark architecture is based on a master-slave architecture with a cluster manager to coordinate tasks.

    • Spark has a master node that manages the cluster and worker nodes that execute tasks.

    • It uses a cluster manager like YARN or Mesos to allocate resources and schedule tasks.

    • Spark applications are run as independent sets of processes on a cluster, coordinated by the SparkContext object.

    • It has a resilient distributed datas...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Write a python program to greoup annagram
  • Ans. 

    Python program to group anagrams in an array of strings

    • Create a dictionary to store sorted strings as keys and corresponding anagrams as values

    • Iterate through the array of strings, sort each string and add it to the dictionary

    • Return the values of the dictionary as grouped anagrams

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How to achieve aws cross account sharing?
  • Ans. 

    AWS cross account sharing can be achieved by using IAM roles and policies.

    • Create an IAM role in the account that will share resources

    • Define a trust policy in the role to allow the other account to assume the role

    • Attach a policy to the role granting the necessary permissions

    • In the receiving account, create an IAM role with a trust policy allowing the sharing account to assume the role

    • Use the AWS CLI or console to assume

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Difference between logical plan and physical plan in pyspark?
  • Ans. 

    Logical plan represents the high-level abstract representation of the computation to be performed, while physical plan represents the actual execution plan with specific optimizations and details.

    • Logical plan is a high-level abstract representation of the computation to be performed.

    • Physical plan is the actual execution plan with specific optimizations and details.

    • Logical plan is created first and then optimized to gen...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General questions about cultural fitment

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for DELTA Data Engineer interview:
  • Python
  • AWS
  • pyspark
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - be strong in fundamental of python, Pyspark, aws and ready for aws scenario based questions. I have noted all the questions in a blog at -----

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
More than 8 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. It was general snowflake related
  • Q2. Deep dive into architecture of snowflake
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Coding based round with onsite team members

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - managerial round based on past experience and presentation skills
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 1- Tell me about yourself 2- Spark questions (Architecture, Dag, Lineage,Broadcast, Accumulator, Repartition,coalesce,cache,persist,etc) 3- Basic Pyspark coding problem 4- Python coding problem(Array) 5- ...
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 1- Tell me about yourself 2- Spark architecture 3- Parquet vs avro 4- catalyst optimiser 5- external table vs managed table vs cluster table 6- GIL in python 7- Memory management in python 8- Data skewnes...

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Airtel Payments Bank Data Engineer interview:
  • Python
  • Spark
  • Hadoop
  • Hive
  • SQL
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - If you have 3 years experience be ready with the coding part as well as in depth knowledge about everything related to data engineering.
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
No response
Round 1 - HR 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Why do you want to work here,
  • Q2. They want to know your passion and motivation for the opportunity
  • Q3. Tell me about you
  • Q4. What are your expectations
  • Q5. When are you ready to start
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Dec 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What information can you provide about the projects you worked on in your previous companies
  • Ans. 

    I have worked on projects involving data pipeline development, ETL processes, and data warehousing.

    • Developed and maintained data pipelines to ingest, process, and store large volumes of data

    • Implemented ETL processes to transform raw data into usable formats for analysis

    • Designed and optimized data warehouses for efficient storage and retrieval of data

    • Worked on real-time data processing using technologies like Apache Kaf

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What are some SQL queries that utilize joins and window functions?
  • Ans. 

    SQL queries using joins and window functions

    • Use INNER JOIN to combine rows from two or more tables based on a related column

    • Use WINDOW functions like ROW_NUMBER() to assign a unique sequential integer to each row within a partition

    • Example: SELECT column1, column2, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY column1 ORDER BY column2) AS row_num FROM table_name

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are the reasons for your decision to leave your current organization?
  • Ans. 

    Seeking new challenges and growth opportunities in a more innovative environment.

    • Desire for career advancement

    • Lack of growth opportunities in current organization

    • Interest in working with new technologies or industries

    • Seeking a more collaborative or dynamic work environment

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What are your reasons for wanting to join this company?
  • Ans. 

    I am impressed by the company's innovative projects and collaborative work culture.

    • Innovative projects in the data engineering field

    • Collaborative work culture that fosters growth and learning

    • Company's reputation for valuing employee input and ideas

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
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Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Most of questions from your project
  • Q2. Oops concepts SQL joins
  • Q3. Angular Data binding
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Angular project
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Telecome domain related questions along with Unix shell scripting and SQL database question .
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
Selected Selected
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 - Aptitude Test 

Common Aptitude along with HTML5, CSS

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Mostly questions were on HTML5,CSS and web development related questions.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Sep 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is MVP architecture?
  • Ans. 

    MVP architecture stands for Model-View-Presenter architecture, a design pattern that separates the presentation layer from the business logic.

    • MVP divides the application into three components: Model (data), View (UI), and Presenter (logic).

    • Model represents the data and business logic, View represents the UI, and Presenter acts as an intermediary that communicates between Model and View.

    • MVP helps in achieving separation...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. How to structure a database for a amazon like application
  • Ans. 

    Use relational database with tables for users, products, orders, etc. Utilize indexes for fast querying.

    • Create a table for users with columns like user_id, name, email, etc.

    • Create a table for products with columns like product_id, name, price, etc.

    • Create a table for orders with columns like order_id, user_id, product_id, quantity, etc.

    • Utilize indexes on commonly queried columns like user_id, product_id for faster retri...

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Job Fair and was interviewed in Mar 2022. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. What is your Name ?
  • Q2. Meghana shivanand harikant
  • Q3. What work do you want to do?
  • Q4. Data entry operator work form home

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I want to data entry operator job work form home job

DELTA Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in DELTA Data Engineer interview?
DELTA interview process usually has 3 rounds. The most common rounds in the DELTA interview process are Technical and HR.
What are the top questions asked in DELTA Data Engineer interview?

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  2. Difference between logical plan and physical plan in pyspa...read more
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