EST hours, so being in Phoenix, days started and ended early.
I'm a data engineer. The tech used in my area was like going back in time. After coming off of four years exclusively in Azure, I found myself spending most of my time copying and pasting documentation into Excel and Word.
No use of emerging tech. Old SQL Server DBs, homegrown APIs, MongoDB, Unix, Hadoop, Teradata, some Oracle. No DB projects for source control. Deployments were called CI/CD, but no end-to-end automation.
There were "data warehouses," but sadly no simple data stores with normalization at the still-having-duplicates level. Distinct selects were required as the use of code was limited to just getting the data and worrying about optimization after the next migration.
I had six managers in four years. That's bad.
Easy to average questions. Except for questions around Core Java, Spring Boot, API, Cloud, and security. Gen AI is a big focus area these days, so prepare for that as well. Behavioral questions were also asked to check fitment.
2 technical rounds. 1 written test with programming questions. Simple process. Smooth onboarding. HR round. Manager round. We had to wait a long time for confirmation. Long process. Offer letter takes a lot of time.
The interview process was smooth, and there were a total of 3 rounds. The first round was mostly on Java basics, multithreading, and 1-2 programming questions. The next round had slightly more complex programming. Then there was a managerial round, a
Easy to average questions. Except for questions around Core Java, Spring Boot, API, Cloud, and security. Gen AI is a big focus area these days, so prepare for that as well. Behavioral questions were also asked to check fitment.
2 technical rounds. 1 written test with programming questions. Simple process. Smooth onboarding. HR round. Manager round. We had to wait a long time for confirmation. Long process. Offer letter takes a lot of time.
The interview process was smooth, and there were a total of 3 rounds. The first round was mostly on Java basics, multithreading, and 1-2 programming questions. The next round had slightly more complex programming. Then there was a managerial round, a