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      Big Data Cloud Associate Interview

      9 Apr 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Jan 2025

      Interview

      Phone screening, technical questions for 1st round, then 2 hours interview with 4 different people, going from leadership questions to very technical questions, in every aspect, about AWS products and even other products

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      DNS, WLAN, HDFS, Spark, NoSQL, Linux
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      Big Data Cloud Associate Interview

      15 Jul 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Jul 2019

      Interview

      I had one first round phone interview with Amazon Ireland. The difficulty was high if you have no hands on experience on map reduce jobs. The call lasted for one hour and fifteen minutes.

      Interview questions [14]

      Question 1

      Assume one scheduled MapR job takes 1 hour every day to complete and suddenly it is taking two hours then how will you find the cause of additional one hour run time?
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      Question 2

      What is the partitioning step of Map Reduce job?
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      Question 3

      How will you find the data distribution across each data node? and how will you manage the data distribution?
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      Question 4

      What is input split?
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      Question 5

      How will you find the cpu utilization on linux machine?
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      Question 6

      What are the linux file system types?
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      Question 7

      Difference between Private IP and Public IP?
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      Question 8

      What is the port number of Domain Name Service?
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      Question 9

      Where data get stored when map reduce job gets executed?
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      Question 10

      How will you find which data node is failed?
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      Question 11

      How to read files from HDFS into spark shell?
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      Question 12

      Assume your machine is connected to MYSQL server and suddenly you get the connection error then how will you troubleshoot the connection problem? and you dont have the server IP. You just have the hostname.
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      Question 13

      What exactly happens in shuffling of map reduce job?
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      Question 14

      Talk about the map reduce job you designed.
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