Tata Consultancy Services Data Engineer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Data Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Tata Consultancy Services overall takes an average of 31 days.
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SQL and Databases
What is the difference between OLTP and OLAP systems?
How would you optimize a slow SQL query?
Explain the concepts of primary key, foreign key, and unique key.
Write a query to find duplicate records in a table.
How do you handle NULL values in SQL?
What are indexes, and how do they impact query performance?
What is a transaction, and how does ACID compliance ensure data integrity
I had 2 Technical Rounds. It was good experience
Round 1 : Project discussion, Spark coding question, coalesce vs repartition, cluster config
Round 2: SQL problems, header and trailer validation, transformation vs action
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. what is spark transformations and actions
2. Questions on cluster configuration
3. coding questions
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tata Consultancy Services (Bogotá, Cundinamarca)
Interview
First I had to talk to a person from HR, then a live coding interview with an expert where I got asked about SQL, Python and Datafactory and finally an Interview with the manager.
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Question 1
Live coding with an expert with questions in SQL and Python.