Application I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter after a couple of weeks.

Interview Process The process had 3 rounds:

• Recruiter Phone Screen (30 mins) – Basic background questions, role expectations, and a quick run-through of my skills.
• Technical/HireVue Assessment – A mix of SQL, Python (Pandas), and scenario-based data engineering questions. Some behavioral prompts as well.
• Live Technical + Behavioral Round – This included a panel interview with technical deep-dive questions on ETL design, data pipelines, Spark, and SQL queries, followed by behavioral questions using the STAR method.

Outcome I was rejected after the third round. The feedback was not very detailed, and communication felt a bit slow.

SQL, Pandas, ETL, Python, data pipeline architecture.

Big data tools: Spark, Hive; occasionally Hadoop, Kafka.