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      Data Engineer Interview

      24 Feb 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Fractal in Feb 2021

      Interview

      Back in December 2020, I had got a link related to written Test containing - 2-3 SQL Programming questions and 2 general programming questions and few MCQs related to SQL, Data Warehousing, Hive, Spark, Kafka. I was later contacted by Jesvin (Recruiter) regarding the next steps which was 3 Technical Rounds and 1 HR round. 1st Technical Round :- It lasted for around 1 Hour, and I was interviewed around - Hive, Hive Optimization Techniques, Spark, SQL Queries (Window Functions). 2nd Round :- This round lasted for 45 mins , and I was interviewed by Senior Data Engineer on concepts around AWS EMR , Databricks, Spark, Splitting Of Files, File Formats , Situational questions like handling Large Files, etc etc. 3rd Round :- This is the final technical round which was taken by directors of DS in fractal. This was around the project I was working in my current organization. He had all reviews from previous rounds. This round lasted for 40 mins. 4th Round :- This was taken by head HR from Gurgaon. She only asked me one question, which was tell me more about yourself which had answers to all her questions and this round lasted only for 15 mins. Very next week, I got the Offer letter. The whole process was smooth and Jesvin was very helpful in calming my nerves and guiding on what to expect from the interview. Felt very welcomed.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Hive Bucketing, Partitioning concepts. How do these techniques improve performance ? What all other optimizations can be done ? Different Data types supported by Hive and some small questions around those.
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      Question 2

      Spark Architecture, Query Execution Plan, AWS EMR Architecture, Redshift Architecture and Why Redshift. File Splitting . Various big data file formats. Why databricks instead of EMR ?
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      Question 3

      SQL Queries involving Window functions, Group by, CTEs and writing optimized queries.
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      Data Engineer Interview

      31 May 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Fractal (Bengaluru)

      Interview

      It was a three-round process, excluding the HR round. There were two technical rounds (testing Python > SQL > SPARK) and one techno-managerial round with the hiring manager. In this round, they went in-depth into your projects and the tech stack you have worked on, from basics to scenario-based questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      About SQL joins and it's respective output. Spark architecture and how it works.
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      Data Engineer Interview

      10 Apr 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Fractal

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      Data Engineer Interview

      31 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Fractal

      Interview

      It contains 2 rounds of technical. 1st is average 2nd is managerial with technical. Questions werw majorly the definitions and its use case on the theory side however practical designing questions and python was expected to be more strong

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