Process
I interviewed with Slalom in 2025 for a consulting role, to be staff augmentation for a "large client". The interviewer himself was pretty nice. The question that I got was "valid palindrome". See my other interview questions for the other things asked.
Questions
Valid Palindrome
Test cases for Valid Palindrome.
Troubleshoot EMR (Application taking longer than expected). How would you debug it?
They want your thought process.
Spark filter and partition on a DataFrame.
Reading and writing to a DataFrame.
Personal experience part too.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Slalom Data Engineer role in Canada.
Success Rate
Slalom's interview process for their Data Engineer roles in Canada is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Slalom's Data Engineer interview process in Canada.
