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Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 31 Mar 2024

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 Mar 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What do you know about CS Workflows
  • Ans. 

    CS Workflows refer to the processes and steps involved in managing and analyzing data in a computer science context.

    • CS Workflows involve defining data sources and transformations

    • They often include data cleaning, processing, and analysis steps

    • Tools like Apache Airflow and Luigi are commonly used for managing workflows

    • CS Workflows help automate data pipelines and ensure data quality and consistency

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What do you know about Forms and Templates and its use in workflow and webreports
  • Ans. 

    Forms and Templates are used in workflow and web reports to standardize data input and presentation.

    • Forms are used to collect data in a structured manner, often with predefined fields and formats

    • Templates are pre-designed layouts for presenting data in a consistent way

    • Forms and Templates help streamline processes, ensure data consistency, and improve reporting accuracy

    • In workflow management, Forms can be used to gather...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Why you need change

Skills evaluated in this interview

Top IBM Data Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. 1) How to handle data skewness in spark.
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Data Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Optimal Strategy for a Coin Game You are playing a coin game with your friend Ninjax. There are N coins placed in a straight line. Here are the rules of the game: 1. Each coin has a value associated with it. 2. The game involves two players... read more
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I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Apr 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 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Depends on person who take interview
  • Q2. Depend on the candidate and should be able to handle any type of questions
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Hr round is all about knowing ur skills and analyzing your ability
  • Q2. Be prepared and answer confidently as its all about your own

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - It is very very Hard to get a chance for interview, if u get a chance be confident and believe in your skills
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Dec 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

It was a 1 hr test where we were asked to play games from a selected online site where they could record our problem-solving skills and response time and ability to make critical decisions. After which there was an English test in which sound is played and we were asked to guess the sentence she spoke or the answer to that sentence, and also to repeat the sentence is the same way.

Round 2 - Coding Test 

The coding test comprises 2 questions as we were graduate hires, 1st question is the fundamental coding question to check the candidate's basic skills. The next question is of the intermediate level to check their overall coding expertise.

Round 3 - HR 

(10 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself.
  • Q2. How is the weather there?
  • Q3. What are the types of clouds?
  • Ans. 

    There are three types of clouds: public, private, and hybrid.

    • Public clouds are owned and operated by third-party providers, and the infrastructure is shared among multiple organizations.

    • Private clouds are dedicated to a single organization and can be located on-premises or hosted by a third-party provider.

    • Hybrid clouds combine public and private clouds, allowing organizations to take advantage of the benefits of both.

    • E...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Have you heard about the Hybrid cloud?
  • Ans. 

    Yes, Hybrid cloud is a combination of public and private cloud infrastructure.

    • Hybrid cloud allows organizations to leverage the benefits of both public and private cloud infrastructure.

    • It provides flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

    • For example, an organization can use a public cloud for non-sensitive data and a private cloud for sensitive data.

    • Hybrid cloud also allows for workload portability and disaster...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. So, Do you Play Chess?
  • Q6. Why do you want to join IBM?
  • Q7. What makes you suitable for this company?
  • Q8. What are polymorphism, abstraction, and encapsulation?
  • Ans. 

    Polymorphism, abstraction, and encapsulation are three fundamental concepts in object-oriented programming.

    • Polymorphism allows objects of different classes to be treated as if they are objects of the same class.

    • Abstraction is the process of hiding complex implementation details and showing only the necessary information to the user.

    • Encapsulation is the practice of keeping the internal workings of an object hidden from ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q9. What is inheritance and what are their types? Explain them.
  • Ans. 

    Inheritance is a mechanism in object-oriented programming where a new class is derived from an existing class.

    • It allows the new class to inherit the properties and methods of the existing class.

    • There are two types of inheritance: single and multiple.

    • Single inheritance is when a class inherits from only one parent class.

    • Multiple inheritance is when a class inherits from multiple parent classes.

    • For example, a class 'Car'...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q10. Do you have any questions?

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for IBM Associate Systems Engineer interview:
  • DAA
  • Coding
  • SQL
  • Networking
  • Programming
  • English
  • Aptitude
  • Design thinking
  • OOPS
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - My advice is that you just be real, and don't try to show yourself too bright or too low, interviewer wants to know your real self, maybe tomorrow you are going to make critical decisions for the company for the interviewer has a responsibility to select the best candidate.
Do not hesitate to tell the reality, if you do not know the answer simply say, "My apologies, I do not know the answer" or something like that. Don't try to make confusing statements, just be real, confident, and happy. Cause I you won't then they will ask you to smile :)

Skills evaluated in this interview

Top IBM Associate Systems Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Given string/sentence need to be reversed and the vowels need to be replaced with numbers from 1-9.In the reversed string replaced numbers should appear in descending order from left to right .If there are more than 9 vowels , numbering sho... read more
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Associate Systems Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Given string/sentence need to be reversed and the vowels need to be replaced with numbers from 1-9.In the reversed string replaced numbers should appear in descending order from left to right .If there are more than 9 vowels , numbering sho... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

This round has MCQ-type questions.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 1. How JS works behind the scenes. 2. Hoisting in JS 3. Event Loop 4. Some basic questions on Reactjs and Redux.
  • Ans. 

    JS works by interpreting and executing code line by line, hoisting moves variable declarations to the top, event loop manages asynchronous operations, Reactjs and Redux are popular libraries for building user interfaces.

    • JS works by interpreting and executing code line by line.

    • Hoisting in JS moves variable declarations to the top.

    • Event Loop in JS manages asynchronous operations.

    • Reactjs and Redux are popular libraries fo

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Asked me about my previous projects. Also asked a few basic questions from Js.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Senior Application Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. LRU Cache Design Question Design a data structure for a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache that supports the following operations: 1. get(key) - Return the value of the key if it exists in the cache; otherwise, return -1.2. put(key, value) - I... read more
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Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 5 questions they asked me
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. 5 questions they asked in interview
  • Q2. 5 questions they asked me
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Companies and salary

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Good and excellent communication in interview that feel good

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I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jun 2022. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Jenkins pipelines, git commands, docker container, AWS services, Kubernetes, Terraform, ansible, Jenkins build and Release process

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for IBM Devops Engineer interview:
  • Devops
  • AWS
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Update on DevOps tools like Kubernetes Jenkins Terraform ansible...these tools are trending now as a DevOps Engineer

Top IBM Devops Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Explain in detail the architecture , real time use case of containers and how do we manage or orchestrate them. explain dockerfile commands, docker-compose, kubernetes yaml file contents, kubernetes deployment.
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Devops Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Reverse the String Problem Statement You are given a string STR which contains alphabets, numbers, and special characters. Your task is to reverse the string. Example: Input: STR = "abcde" Output: "edcba" Input: The first line of input cont... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Feb 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

There will be a gaming/analytical test to check on ones analytical thinking

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical interview on Javascript,React and Redux
Round 3 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Functional questions and reason for switch

Top IBM Senior Systems Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What is the difference between Index and subscript?
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Senior Systems Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. 2. Explain COMP, COMP-2, COMP-3 and Display. What are the difference between Continue and Next Sentence? Why does SOC7 occur?
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Senior Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Madan Mohan Mishra

posted on 29 Jun 2022

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in May 2022. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

I was asked to do some python code provided by the interviewer and some senario-based SQL queries and a lot of job processing theory and optimization techniques used in my project.

  • Q1. What are the optimization techniques used in your project
  • Ans. 

    Optimization techniques used in project

    • Caching

    • Parallel processing

    • Compression

    • Indexing

    • Query optimization

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for IBM Senior Data Engineer interview:
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Spark
  • sqoop
  • AWS
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - try to focus on the job background process and in python focus on the logic only

Senior Data Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Write a query to get the customer with the highest total order value for each year, month. [Note: Order table is different and Customer table is different. Order_ID and Customer_ID are the PK of the table with Oid from Customer table being ... read more
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Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Whats was your last project
  • Q2. What challenge you face and how you have resolved
Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What was your last salary
  • Q2. What is your expected salary

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - interview is depends on the project or accounts. you basic concept should be clear on your key skills

Top IBM Advisory System Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What you will do if you got to know there is a performance issue in code change which you developed before 1 day of production deployment
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Q1. What you will do if you got to know there is a performance issue in code change which you developed before 1 day of production deployment
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

OOPS, DSA, - 20mins in Hackkrank

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. OOPS, DSA, Basic Questions from Python
  • Q2. What is the keyword for function? What project I did in my college final year?
  • Ans. 

    The keyword for function in programming is 'function'.

    • The keyword 'function' is used to define a function in programming languages like JavaScript.

    • Functions are blocks of code that perform a specific task and can be called multiple times within a program.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Best Interview Process

Top IBM Associate Systems Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Given string/sentence need to be reversed and the vowels need to be replaced with numbers from 1-9.In the reversed string replaced numbers should appear in descending order from left to right .If there are more than 9 vowels , numbering sho... read more
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Associate Systems Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Given string/sentence need to be reversed and the vowels need to be replaced with numbers from 1-9.In the reversed string replaced numbers should appear in descending order from left to right .If there are more than 9 vowels , numbering sho... read more
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IBM Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in IBM interview for experienced candidates?
IBM interview process for experienced candidates usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the IBM interview process for experienced candidates are Technical, HR and Resume Shortlist.
How to prepare for IBM interview for experienced candidates?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at IBM. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at IBM expect are Agile, SQL, Python, Javascript and SAP.
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The duration of IBM interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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