I applied online. The process took four weeks.

• First call by HR to do basic screening, then a take-home assignment. There was a one-week period to do the take-home assignment in Scala and Spark. You are expected to learn basic Scala and Spark if you have no experience using it. The assignment and setup are very clear, and the team is always ready to answer any queries you have on the assignment. This makes it feel like they are genuinely testing your ability to learn, problem-solve, and code instead of just testing your memory skills. The assignment is then reviewed, and comments will be given by the reviewer.
• Panel interview where you can prepare a topic of your choice to do a presentation on. This is to test your ability to communicate technical information in layman's terms. It is followed by a run-through of your take-home assignment, the sharing of your logic, and some basic Spark knowledge tests. The panel interview ends with a business knowledge test where you run through a very simple case study. If you know what this company does, then it will be very easy to read up on this topic.

Overall, the interview feels challenging but fair, and it was a great experience going through it.

Technical questions on Spark and Scala.