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On Site: Round1: Detailed discussion on Indexes and how will I use on a given question. (Note study multiple indexes, partial indexes and order) Round 2: (Probably Bar raiser) 1. Top 3 unique salaries and all employees having that per department 2. LC 601 Round 3: Only LP
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Big Data Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Apr 7, 2025

On Site: Round1: Detailed discussion on Indexes and how will I use on a given question. (Note study multiple indexes, partial indexes and order) Round 2: (Probably Bar raiser) 1. Top 3 unique salaries and all employees having that per department 2. LC 601 Round 3: Only LP

Project level discussion which mentioned over resume. Hadoop and Hive question and 1 scenario based Map Reduce question Spark questions like RDD, Dataframe, Data and Spark Streaming with Kafka. SQL and NoSQL questions and queries
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Big Data Engineer

Interviewed at ITC Infotech

4.2
Jul 21, 2018

Project level discussion which mentioned over resume. Hadoop and Hive question and 1 scenario based Map Reduce question Spark questions like RDD, Dataframe, Data and Spark Streaming with Kafka. SQL and NoSQL questions and queries

different ways to implement singleton comparable vs comparator questions on hashmap implementation wap to find anagrams with complexity wap to rotate linked list with complexity wap suitable to sort this array - arr[1,0,1,1,0,1,0] difference between sqlcontext & hivecontext spark features find 0 size file in unix count number of files in a directory in unix simple SQL queries to join two tables
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Senior Software Engineer - Big Data

Interviewed at Visa Inc.

3.8
Sep 25, 2019

different ways to implement singleton comparable vs comparator questions on hashmap implementation wap to find anagrams with complexity wap to rotate linked list with complexity wap suitable to sort this array - arr[1,0,1,1,0,1,0] difference between sqlcontext & hivecontext spark features find 0 size file in unix count number of files in a directory in unix simple SQL queries to join two tables

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