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Rakuten Data Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 28 Feb 2025

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Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 28 Feb 2025

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

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 2 queries, 2 py code, 2 pyspark code, 1 pandas question, design a pipeline, optimisation tech in datapipeline, and using pyspark

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Interviewed for Contractor - Data Engineer - AI interview
1st Round AI interview

Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 15 Feb 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic questions
  • Q2. Intermediate sql qa

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Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 28 Sep 2022

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Sep 2021. There were 4 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.
View all Resume tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Mainly involving python and Sql
  • Q2. Case study involving window function
Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. More on the designing side. How to design data science solutions
  • Q2. Case study on how to know which is a proper place to build a store using data science approach
Round 4 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Compensation discussion and joining date
  • Q2. Expected CTC and Benefits of the company

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Rakuten Data Engineer interview:
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Spark
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Go thoroughly with python SQL and spark for data engineering interviews

Interview questions from similar companies

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Level order tree traversal
  • Q2. Find the pair element from the array
  • Ans. 

    Find the pair element from the array

    • Iterate through the array and use a hashmap to store elements and their counts

    • Check if the current element's complement exists in the hashmap

    • Return the pair if found, otherwise return null

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Jan 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Simple sql and python basic questions was asked.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare for basic sql and python interview questions

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed before Jul 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. DS Algo Questions on Trees. Leadership Principles

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Read up on DS Algo and white paper coding and Leadership Principles

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Data struct,algo,
  • Q2. High level data structs and algos

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: coding and submission before face to face interview shortlisting
Tips: practice coding ,coding is key to success for SE

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: based on marks ,I was called for F2F
Tips: the ppt was to be submitted explaining the approach

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: a lot of brain storming
Tips: understands the nitty gritty of the structs and algos

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: exact code was to be written instead of pseudo code
Tips: get hold of DS,Algos

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Amazon user image Rajesh Paramanandam

posted on 24 Feb 2017

I was interviewed in Oct 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude was quite easy they just asked us basic questions from Math,logical reasoning and english
Tips: Just think well before u do..
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 40

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: It was face to face .. the interviewee asked questions from our resume... Since I m from computer science background they asked some technical questions..

Tips: Beware filling ur resume.. they will ask every stuff that you have in resume

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Discussion about my project that i vr done in my final year.they asked me what was my role in my project

College Name: Sri ganesh college of engineering and technology

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The first test
contained 25 objective questions encompassing the basics of Computer Science ranging from
data structures, networks and operating systems to theory of computation
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 25

Round: Test
Experience: The second test contained 3 coding questions.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: HR Interview
Experience: After the written test, next day I appeared for 3 interviews.
They were checking if you can write code and also if you are aware of the practical issues faced while coding. In the final round they were testing if you could abstract out a real world
problem into code.
Tips: Overall I can say that you must hope for the best and prepare for the
worst. So make sure that you are prepared on all counts. You never know what might go wrong.

Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Amazon user image Rohit Kulkarni

posted on 21 Sep 2015

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Relevant experience matters, a lot!

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Nothing specific. Just resume based.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 7 rounds. Across SQL, Python, Shell Script (bash), platform architectures and Amazon web services (AWS).
Tips: Prepare well - SQL and data architectures for various use cases.

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: On Amazons leadersh

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Rakuten Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Rakuten Data Engineer interview?
Rakuten interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Rakuten interview process are Technical, Resume Shortlist and HR.
How to prepare for Rakuten Data Engineer interview?
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 Rakuten. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Rakuten expect are Python, Hadoop, SQL, Big Data and Spark.
What are the top questions asked in Rakuten Data Engineer interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Rakuten Data Engineer interview -

  1. Case study on how to know which is a proper place to build a store using data s...read more
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