I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Ring (Kyiv, Kyiv) in Sept 2018
Interview
I've got a call from the recruiter. She asked me why I applied, what I know about the company, checked my English level by asking about my work experience and project I work on. After that, we scheduled a technical interview with 2 analysts and Technical PM. It was a few days after the call. And next week I have got a call that I was declined, I asked for feedback and a few minutes after the call they dropped an e-mail with detailed feedback. There was a review of my skills and the reason for declining me - lack of motivation to work on this project.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
At the technical interview, I was asked about Big Data basics, how Map Reduce works, Spark features. Also, we talked a lot about my previous experience in the context of the tech stack - NoSQL databases, SQL databases, Spark. There were analytics questions like the difference between clusterization and classification because the position included the need to build some analytics
Pros:
The whole interview was in a very friendly atmosphere. Technical questions were fine and I had a great time.
Cons:
Analytical questions were one of the reasons I did not like the project. And it was not mentioned in the position
I was interviewed by analysts and PM, but not Data Engineers and I did not want to be a single Data Engineer in a team as well.
I mentioned that my primary language is Scala in the CV and at the interview but their project was in Python.