Data Engineer Interview Experience - Boston, Massachusetts
Process
First Interview: On phone
Technical: SQL (30 mins), Coding (Python, 30 mins)
4 SQL, 4 Python. Onsite is coming up in a few weeks.
It's important to walk through your thought process while you code. Interviewers are very helpful. They will definitely give you hints; cash on them.
Prior to that, the HR provided sufficient practice material, similar to LeetCode and HackerRank.
Questions
SQL: Top 3 products by sale, using CASE, a basic HAVING clause, and one set operator (INTERSECT) type question.
Python: Average word length, IP address parsing, dictionary, list of lists, flatten list of lists. (Similar to previous interview experiences)
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