Contacted by a recruiter. "I know nothing about Hadoop." He said it was OK, they are looking for Linux and networking skills. Cool, I rock at Linux and networking. Took skills test on Linux/Networking. Aced it. Went to next interview. I specifically asked if I needed to know Hadoop. She said no. Went on to next interview with the guy who would be my manager. He showed up late. First question: "What do you know about Hadoop?" He got kicked out of the room he was in and had to call me back halfway through the interview. I asked if he was technical. He laughed and said he wasn't. Awesome, just what everyone in tech support is looking for. He started asking lots of creepy personal questions. Made it to next interview. Next guy called 15 mins before the interview and said he had to reschedule. Ok. He called again before next meeting and said he had to reschedule. Ok. He finally actually has the interview with me and is late. First question: "What do you know about Hadoop?" 30 mins of questions about Hadoop. "Hadoop" is said so much it stops sounding like a real word. He asks: "If you don't know anything about Hadoop why are you interested in this job?" I told them I wasn't and we ended the call. Funniest interviewing experience of my life.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Bengaluru)
Interview
1) HR call and screening
2) Manager + technical
3) technical
4) All above 3 steps are telephonic, now it is on-site pure technical
5) HR
Hr will call and do the initial screening. After that it will be telephonic round , followed by another technical , followed by another on-site technical , then meeting with senior manager.
If you ask for a update after the interview like after 2 days via mail hr will respond immediate. Good work by hr
Overall good.........
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ssh debugging , which are the files required for ssh , not id_rsa files
What are the steps to resolve server slowness
What will you do if the application team complains of application slowness
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Bengaluru) in Jun 2017
Interview
This is the best and toughest interview i ever attended.
I had around 4 rounds- 3 pure technical(unix+hadoop), last round- hadoop+HR.
Process took around 2 weeks and it started with a HR mail with few questions on our experience, role and why hortonworks.
They were in search of a unix admin who are willing to learn hadoop. So they were firing questions on issues and debugging in unix. I would say this is tuff.
Coming to hadoop, believe me they are experts. They asked everything in detailed and very patient enough to let me explain everything i knew. And if my answers were wrong they explained me what is correct. Pretty good right.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Santa Clara, CA) in Apr 2016
Interview
The Interview process was very quick and they are very Responsive. A Gentleman from HR team called me and asked my experience and other details and then a 30 mins screening with Senior Hr Recruiter and then two rounds of Technical Phone Interview and then an Onsite Interview with Four members, Senior Director, Sr Engineer, Technical Lead and Tech Support manager. All of them made me feel very comfortable and questions were crisp and Technical. I got my Interview feedback within two hours which is Super Awesome (very rare with other companies) I'm really impressed with their swift response. Special thanks to Senior HR who is very prompt in answering my questions and calls.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About Hadoop, HDP, Most of Linux question since am a Linux admin and real time issues, scenarios and troubleshooting questions