I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at IBM in May 2022
Interview
Interview was easy. Had 1 round of interview. Questions were mainly on spark and kafka.
1. How to scale applications using kafka
2. Kafka group id mechanism
3. Spark
4. Spark sql code
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Questions on kafka group id
2. Spark
3. Code using spark
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at IBM (Bengaluru) in Jan 2022
Interview
Chill interview.Got through campus placement.Asked a some questions on projects.Having worked on different databases is a plus.Having worked on different large scale data processing libraries is a plus ( Haadop , Apache Spark etc )
The technical interview was done a few weeks after the first HR interview. Both interviews lasted half an hour. At the first interview the questions were about work experience, motivation and career aspirations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Open questions to verify proficiency with tools mentioned on CV and questions about previous projects.