I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Altimetrik (Bengaluru) in Oct 2024
Interview
This interview process was nothing short of a joke. I went through two rounds of technical interviews, and shockingly, both interviewers asked the exact same set of questions. It’s clear there was no communication or coordination among the team, which shows a complete lack of professionalism.
Is this how you treat experienced candidates? Repeating questions instead of digging into actual skills or experience just wastes everyone's time. It’s ridiculous that a company can’t even organize its interview process properly. If this is how you run interviews, I dread to think what it's like working there.
Candidates, if you end up in this situation, just treat it as a mock interview. Don’t waste your energy on companies that don’t value your time or expertise.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This interview process was nothing short of a joke. I went through two rounds of technical interviews, and shockingly, both interviewers asked the exact same set of questions. It’s clear there was no communication or coordination among the team, which shows a complete lack of professionalism.
Is this how you treat experienced candidates? Repeating questions instead of digging into actual skills or experience just wastes everyone's time. It’s ridiculous that a company can’t even organize its interview process properly. If this is how you run interviews, I dread to think what it's like working there.
Candidates, if you end up in this situation, just treat it as a mock interview. Don’t waste your energy on companies that don’t value your time or expertise.
first L1 round asked pyspark, sql queries, python program
then scenario based questions about project work. concepts and questions on snowflake cloud, query optimization, monitoring, etl/elt difference, joins, using cte write the query
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Altimetrik (Hyderābād) in Mar 2026
Interview
Initial Screening (HR / Recruiter Round)
This is a quick discussion to understand your background, experience, and expectations.
They typically ask about:
Your current role and projects
Tech stack (like PySpark, SQL, AWS, etc.)
Notice period and salary expectations
2. Technical Round 1 (SQL + Basics)
This round mainly checks your fundamentals.
You can expect:
SQL problems (joins, window functions, aggregations)
Data cleaning or transformation questions
Basic Python or PySpark questions
Example:
Find nth highest salary
Remove duplicates
Identify consecutive records
3. Technical Round 2 (Data Engineering Concepts)
This is more in-depth and practical.
Topics usually include:
Data pipeline design
ETL/ELT concepts
Batch vs streaming
Partitioning, bucketing
Data lakes vs data warehouses
They may ask:
How you designed a pipeline using Spark/Airflow
Handling late-arriving data
Performance optimization techniques
4. System Design Round (Important for 3+ yrs experience)
Here they test how you think and design systems.
Typical questions:
Design a data pipeline for a telecom or e-commerce system
Handle large-scale data ingestion (Kafka → S3 → Redshift)
Data quality and monitoring
Focus areas:
Scalability
Fault tolerance
Cost optimization
5. Managerial / Behavioral Round
This round checks how you work in a team.
Common questions:
Challenges you faced in a project
How you handled failures in pipelines
Working with stakeholders
The first round was technical and the interviewer started with asking me to write some python code on a compiler while sharing the screen, it was a leetcode question easy one.
