I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Adevinta (Paris) in Oct 2023
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Processus de recrutement beaucoup trop long pour au final aucune proposition.
Entretien avec les ressources humaines puis un entretien technique avec un data engineer et enfin un entretien avec le hiring manager.
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Quelles sont les projets auxquels vous avez contribué ?
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Adevinta (Amsterdam) in Aug 2022
Interview
It was good in general took 30 mins with other software engineers focusing on wide technical requirements for the job, there are so many things you need to know as a data engineer which I found a misleading title, it needs senior level.
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- Difference between data frame and dataset? - What is partitioning in DB? - What are CTEs and when to use them? - What do you know about lead/lag functions? - How do you measure the quality of data? - What can you do if find a very slow SQL query? - Did you use parquet files, and why? - How does spark work, when did you need to use it, and how is it compared to other tools you used before? - You mentioned A/B testing, what is it? And why do you use it to achieve your goal? - Did you work with streaming data and frameworks like Kafka? - Are you using DBT to build your transformations? - Did you hear about Adobe Campaign and Audience Manager? - Did you work with looker? - How can you deal with team members who are eager to do and try new things?
PRO - Proceso muy largo y detallado unas cuantas
entrevista de investigación y técnicas a mas niveles y una tarea para cumplir y explicar
CONTRA - no todas las etapas tienen en cuenta de la posición
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Preguntas sobre data engineering y otras sobre programación pura