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If you are applying for a data engineering roles - technical questions will be around - Database schemas, Data Modelling approaches, Data validation, challenges that you have faced while performing data modelling. How do you design entire ETL process? How the schema will look like? What tools would you use? Behavioral questions can be anything - you don't have to prepare for this. Just be yourself, be authentic. I feel there is no right or wrong answers to these questions.
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Lead Data Engineer

Interviewed at Virtuous Software

3.2
Aug 24, 2022

If you are applying for a data engineering roles - technical questions will be around - Database schemas, Data Modelling approaches, Data validation, challenges that you have faced while performing data modelling. How do you design entire ETL process? How the schema will look like? What tools would you use? Behavioral questions can be anything - you don't have to prepare for this. Just be yourself, be authentic. I feel there is no right or wrong answers to these questions.

// Given a singly linked list without values defined by: class Node { Node next } // Write a function that removes all elements from the list whose _index_ is a fibonacci number // o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o // 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 // x x x x x // becomes // o ----------------> o ------> o -> o ------> o -> o -> o // 0 4 6 7 9 10 11
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Software Engineer/Data Scientist

Interviewed at Tripadvisor

3.5
Oct 29, 2014

// Given a singly linked list without values defined by: class Node { Node next } // Write a function that removes all elements from the list whose _index_ is a fibonacci number // o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o -> o // 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 // x x x x x // becomes // o ----------------> o ------> o -> o ------> o -> o -> o // 0 4 6 7 9 10 11

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