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Data engineers are IT professionals who are needed in almost every industry. Data engineers monitor data trends to determine best next steps for companies. A critical part of a data engineer job is to process raw data into usable data by creating data pipelines and building data systems.

Top Data Engineer Interview Questions & How To Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Can you describe in detail your level of expertise with programming languages?

How to answer
How to answer: Before the interview, review your resume and/or portfolio and make a list of the programs you are most proficient with. If you find that you are lacking the expertise in a program that the company predominately uses, describe yourself as a highly motivated self-starter who will work tirelessly to learn the program(s).
Question 2

Question #2: Explain data engineering in your own words.

How to answer
How to answer: Highlight your role in relation to the larger organization and other roles like data scientists to clearly define your contribution to the overall system of business. Clarify the difference between a database-centric engineer and a pipeline-centric engineer.
Question 3

Question #3: Can you describe your experience working with Apache Hadoop and cloud data management environments?

How to answer
How to answer: Research the company's software, data cloud products, and use of Apache Hadoop to be prepared for this inquiry. Data Engineers must be fluent in programming languages and data management systems used throughout the industry such as Apache Hadoop.

20,202 data engineer interview questions shared by candidates

Something along the lines of: -Taking n lines of input, for each line you have to figure out if you can construct the first word using letters from the second word, -The output for each line review, should be "Yes" or "No".
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Data Integration Engineer

Interviewed at Clover Health

3.6★
Jul 1, 2024

Something along the lines of: -Taking n lines of input, for each line you have to figure out if you can construct the first word using letters from the second word, -The output for each line review, should be "Yes" or "No".

Introduce yourself Talk about the experience on my resume general behavioral questions I did the coding test on Hackerrank. It included one multiple choice and 4-5 coding questions. The coding was not difficult, but all questions were badly phrased, for example, "Create a function that take as an input two integer values and outputs the sum of both".
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Big Data Engineer

Interviewed at Enhance IT

2.6★
Sep 14, 2021

Introduce yourself Talk about the experience on my resume general behavioral questions I did the coding test on Hackerrank. It included one multiple choice and 4-5 coding questions. The coding was not difficult, but all questions were badly phrased, for example, "Create a function that take as an input two integer values and outputs the sum of both".

I got a call from the HR the next day at around 11am. Others got the HR call previous day itself. The HR asked how as the interview process and what I liked about. I said the process was good and I liked the first API based round as it was unique in on-campus selection. She asked me if I am hands-on in Angular and Android both. I replied YES as I have developed projects using both. She asked me if I was OK joining this company as there would much work, mostly 6 days a week and sometimes on Sunday as well.
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Data Engineer Trainee

Interviewed at Bajaj Finance

3.5★
Jul 30, 2023

I got a call from the HR the next day at around 11am. Others got the HR call previous day itself. The HR asked how as the interview process and what I liked about. I said the process was good and I liked the first API based round as it was unique in on-campus selection. She asked me if I am hands-on in Angular and Android both. I replied YES as I have developed projects using both. She asked me if I was OK joining this company as there would much work, mostly 6 days a week and sometimes on Sunday as well.

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