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TIAA Global Business Services Big Data Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 7 Apr 2021

TIAA Global Business Services Big Data Engineer Interview Experiences

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I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Partitioning and Bucketing in hive with examples
  • Ans. 

    Partitioning and bucketing are techniques used in Hive to improve query performance.

    • Partitioning divides data into smaller, more manageable parts based on a specific column.

    • Bucketing further divides data into equal-sized buckets based on a hash function.

    • Partitioning and bucketing can be used together to optimize queries.

    • Example: Partitioning by date column and bucketing by user ID column in a user activity log table.

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  • Q2. SQL questions in a given scenario
  • Q3. Spark framework, dataframes, spark streaming

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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

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

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. SQL queries, python questions, project overview
Round 2 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Project description, what all technologies you worked upon, will u be able to relocate, etc
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Sep 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. SQL and Python and Spark related questions
  • Q2. Project-oriented questions
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Coding and AWS cloud-related questions like GLUE, LAMBDA, Redshift etc
  • Q2. Project and managerial-related questions
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How you calculate the tdi and mdi of a customer in sql
  • Ans. 

    To calculate TDI and MDI of a customer in SQL, you need to aggregate and analyze the customer's transaction data.

    • Calculate Total Daily Income (TDI) by summing up the income of the customer for each day.

    • Calculate Monthly Daily Income (MDI) by averaging the TDI for each day in a month.

    • Use SQL functions like SUM, AVG, and GROUP BY to perform the calculations.

    • Example: SELECT SUM(income) AS TDI, AVG(income) AS MDI FROM tran

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Round 2 - Coding Test 

They asked about the sas,sql,and power bi

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

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

Round 1 - Coding Test 

One sql and one basic python dict question

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions on big data mostly spark
  • Q2. Project based questions
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in May 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. SQL Window functions
  • Q2. Excel computed fields in pivot tables
  • Ans. 

    Excel pivot tables allow users to create computed fields using formulas.

    • In Excel pivot tables, computed fields are created by adding a new field with a formula.

    • Formulas can be simple arithmetic operations or more complex calculations.

    • Computed fields can be used to perform calculations on existing data in the pivot table.

    • Examples: calculating profit margin by dividing revenue by cost, calculating average sales per month

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  • Q3. Difference in precision and recall
  • Ans. 

    Precision is the ratio of correctly predicted positive observations to the total predicted positives, while recall is the ratio of correctly predicted positive observations to the all observations in actual class.

    • Precision focuses on the accuracy of positive predictions, while recall focuses on the proportion of actual positives that were correctly identified.

    • Precision = TP / (TP + FP)

    • Recall = TP / (TP + FN)

    • Example: In...

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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. About past experience
  • Q2. Past project details

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Different joins
  • Q2. Case study
Round 2 - Case Study 

Revenue impact for casino

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Sep 2024. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Basic aptitude questions

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Data structure and algorithms

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Java, SQL questions
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Casual talk about roles
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical.purely
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Purely tech..and then you present a dashboard on power bi
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. PartitionBy vs bucketBy in spark

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