I applied in-person. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Fractal (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Nov 2019
Interview
I got a inteview call followed by a hacker rank test then a telephonic round. After that I was called at the office for 1 technical then a managerial and finally an HR round. Whole process took a week most probably
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Telephonic-
Bucketing
Partitioning
What happens if the file size is more than the memory in driver
Spark architecture
Basic hive
Sql queries
Partitioning in spark
Coalesce in spark
Query execution sequence
Second technical- he was very humble to understand my part of work.
Mainly about the kind of work i have done in past.
SQL scenarios
Data warehousing
Big data basics
Case study on insurance company - how would i store the data what tables should have what columns and how to store them for easy retrieval in big data environment.
How to read xml files
Diff xml and json files
Managerial- it ws a basic QnA
HR-normal
HR discussion .
Nice experience over all
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Fractal (Bengaluru) in Aug 2021
Interview
The interview process was very smooth. It had 1 technical test(includes python and SQL questions) on hacker earth followed by 2 technical round and 1 HR round. The whole process took 10 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had applied for big data role so mainly questions were asked on concepts of spark optimization techniques, SQL queries, hive file formats, Spark configuration, Python, Projects you have worked on which includes academic project as well. Be confident with your answers
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Fractal (Bengaluru)
Interview
There were 4 rounds of interviews and all were virtual due to covid (online programming test, 2 technical interview and finally HR interview).
Interview process was very smooth and HR Jesvin was very friendly and reachable. He initially explained all interview process.
Panel members are also good.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About previous projects, Hive & Spark and it's optimization techniques.
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Fractal in Dec 2020
Interview
The whole process was very seamless and HR was very friendly. The difficulty level is intermediate and all the interviewers were very polite. Enjoyed the interview process. Only negative is they take a bit time to complete the whole process.
