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Data Engineer Interview Experience - United States

September 1, 2023

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I scheduled a quick 45-minute phone interview. The process ended without further notification or any email follow-up. It was a hard interview; the SQL was not difficult, but the BigQuery questions were really hard.

Questions

Many business and data warehouse interview questions you have encountered involve real business scenarios.

The questions are designed to assess your understanding of how to work with data in a practical context.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Alibaba Data Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Alibaba's interview process for their Data Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Alibaba's Data Engineer interview process in United States.

Alibaba Work Experiences

5.0

Alibaba Interview Questions

Split Concatenated Strings

Medium

You are given a list of strings. Concatenate them to form a single string, then find the lexicographically largest string possible by splitting the concatenated string at any point and rejoining it.

StringsGreedy AlgorithmsArrays

Valid Parenthesis String

Medium

Determine if a string containing parentheses and asterisks is a valid parenthesis string. The asterisk can represent a left parenthesis, a right parenthesis, or an empty string.

StringsStacksDynamic ProgrammingGreedy Algorithms

Split Array with Equal Sum

Hard

Given an array of integers, determine if it's possible to split it into two non-empty subarrays with equal sums. The split point itself is not included in either subarray's sum.

Arrays