I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Fractal (Chennai) in Aug 2019
Interview
The interview was carried out in 5 rounds. A HackerRank Coding exercise followed by 3 Technical Discussions and an HR discussion. The interviewers were polite and helpful. All the interviews were conducted on weekdays therefore it was difficult at times.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HackerRank Questions were related to SQL and programming.
The 1st technical discussion was a rigrous one where knowledge on different Hadoop ecosystem like hive, spark, sql, bucketing, joins etc was evaluated. Other technical discussions were on designing the applications.
Happy to hear we were polite & helpful which truly depicts the Fractal Culture. We are really excited & thrilled to know that the recruiting process helped lead you to a decision to join us. Many Congrats & welcome on board.
Fractal HC Team
Other Big Data Engineer interview reviews for Fractal
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.
