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      Senior Data Engineer Interview

      21 June 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Telephone, TX
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Octopus Energy (Telephone, TX) in May 2023

      Interview

      1) Interview with HR recruiter (30 to 40 mins) 2) coding challenge (scenario based) (3 to 4 hours) 3) Tech discussion with 2 engineers (45 mins) 4) white board design working through a scenario with 2 senior engineers (1 hour) All session were really informal with friendly staff who created a comfortable environment to help you relax and represent yourself in your best light.

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      Question 1

      The HR interview was just a relaxed chat based around values and general compatibility for the role. They ensured that you have done your reading around the company and role. The tech challenge was python based, using a provided API to gather/filter/resubmit data. You had to upload the solution along with appropriate tests to Git. The engineer interview didn’t cover the tech challenge solution at all (surprisingly). It was a general discussion on past experience and projects. Later it switched gears to some more general questions like ‘what is etl?’ or ‘tell us about data streaming products?’ or ‘what problems have you had using semi-structured or unstructured data?’. AWS experience and services used was also covered. The whiteboard session I found the hardest part and was again scenario based where you had to diagnose problems in a process and work with the other engineers to come up with a solution. Later (once the main problem had been covered) more requirements/problems were added to see how you thought on your feed and you were questioned on which products you would use (and why)
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