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Target Data Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 5 Sep 2024

Target Data Engineer Interview Experiences

3 interviews found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Aug 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. It was hiring drive face to face interview
  • Q2. Project related indepth discussions
  • Q3. Medium level SQL and DSA
  • Q4. Sorting colors DSA problem
  • Ans. 

    Sort an array of colors in a specific order

    • Use a custom sorting function to sort the colors based on a predefined order

    • Map each color to a numerical value and sort based on that value

    • Consider using a hashmap to store the order of colors

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. In depth spark optimization question

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare SQL, Python and Spark

Skills evaluated in this interview

Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 21 Jun 2024

Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in May 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Clueless and very rude interviewer. The troglodyte asked only from my past experience and everything not included either in the job description or my resume.

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Data Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 16 Aug 2022

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jul 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. I was asked medium Data structure questions mainly on Arrays and strings.
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This round was basically on big data concepts, interviewer asked about Hive, Hbase, Spark and SQL.
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This was a managerial round mostly focused on technical part for the first half, than some bit on optimisation of Big data application as well as infra overall. Than some basic managerial questions.
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This round was about basic HR questions, such as why Target, salary discussion etc.

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Target Data Engineer interview:
  • Spark
  • Hive
  • Airflow
  • Data Structures
  • SCALA
  • Python
  • API
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Stick to basic spark and optimisation parts. Also if you have worked on other tech such as Hive etc. Please go through the basics. Also try covering easy and medium questions on neetcode.io for ds part.

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

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Have you worked in databricks
  • Ans. 

    Yes, I have worked in Databricks for data engineering projects.

    • I have experience using Databricks for data processing and analysis.

    • I have utilized Databricks for building and optimizing data pipelines.

    • I have worked with Databricks notebooks for coding and collaboration.

    • I have used Databricks clusters for scalable data processing.

    • I have integrated Databricks with other tools like Apache Spark for big data processing.

  • Answered by AI

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

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. Boundary traversal of a tree
  • Ans. 

    Boundary traversal of a tree is the process of visiting the nodes on the boundary of a tree in a specific order.

    • The boundary traversal can be done in three steps: left boundary, leaf nodes, and right boundary.

    • For the left boundary, start from the root and traverse down the left side of the tree until reaching a leaf node.

    • For the leaf nodes, perform an inorder traversal to visit all the leaf nodes of the tree.

    • For the ri...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Find the nearest greater value of a given value in a BST
  • Ans. 

    Find the nearest greater value of a given value in a Binary Search Tree (BST).

    • Start from the root node and compare the given value with the current node's value.

    • If the given value is less than the current node's value, move to the left subtree.

    • If the given value is greater than the current node's value, move to the right subtree.

    • Keep track of the closest greater value encountered while traversing the tree.

    • Return the cl

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. There is an infinite stair case and there are n rounds. in i'th round we can jump i steps at one or discard them. it is given that k'th step is broken , find the max height we can reach with out stepping o...
  • Ans. 

    Given an infinite staircase with a broken kth step, find the maximum height we can reach in n rounds of jumping i steps.

    • We can start by jumping the maximum number of steps in each round until we reach the broken step.

    • After reaching the broken step, we can discard the i steps that would land us on the broken step and jump the remaining steps.

    • We can continue this pattern until we reach the maximum height we can reach wit

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Height h was given and form a binary tree of height h and start combining bottom nodes to form a cone like structure

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: there were 20 MCQ which were on ds , networks and basic coding followed by 2 coding questions.
1) print all the distinct substrings of a given string in lexicographical order
2) find the max i-j value in the given array of 0's and 1's such that there are equal number of zeros and ones, where i is the starting index and j is the ending index of the array.
Tips: make sure that you pass atleast half the test cases for both the question.
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 22

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1) i printed left view then leaves and right view using three level order traversals . he asked me to use one traversal only, then i told him the approach and wrote the working code.
2) told him the approach and coded it.
Tips: look at corner cases properly. the interviewers were friendly, so i felt relaxed.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1) i told him a recursive O(2^n) solution, optimised it to O(n^2). he told me to optimise further. Then i finally came up with O(n) solution after 5 min and he was satisfied . i coded it. he was satisfied finally :D .
2) came up with the approach immediately and coded it. he was satisfied.
Tips: he was very particular about corner cases and he checked the code througly tested it on some cases to ensure it was working.

General Tips: be cool. interviewers were friendly. tell them what you are thinking and be clear with the question before answering to avoid wasteage of time.
Skill Tips: solve problems from codechef, spoj and codeforces. solve interview questions from geeksforgeeks and careercup.
Skills: the way you think, coding skills and knowledge on data structures.
Duration: 3
College Name: IIT Roorkee
Motivation: some good seniors got intern, so i was inspired.
Funny Moments: on the interview day a person came into the conference room to call me for interview, i didnt thought he was interviewer. he was very simple, but intelligent and at last i felt like asking him to ask me one more coding question as it was fun solving questions infront of him, but i didnt do that as i was frightened if i would not be able to answer it would be a negative remark :P .

Skills evaluated in this interview

Target Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Target Data Engineer interview?
Target interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Target interview process are One-on-one Round, HR and Technical.
How to prepare for Target 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 Target. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Target expect are Python, Data Modeling, Data Quality, SQL and Open Source.
What are the top questions asked in Target Data Engineer interview?

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

  1. Sorting colors DSA prob...read more
  2. This was a managerial round mostly focused on technical part for the first half...read more
  3. This round was basically on big data concepts, interviewer asked about Hive, Hb...read more

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Target Data Engineer Interview Process

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Target Data Engineer Salary
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₹10.8 L/yr - ₹26 L/yr
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4.8

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3.7

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3.6

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Bangalore / Bengaluru

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