I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Quantexa (London, England) in Jan 2025
Interview
Interview process took around 3 weeks.
The interview process is very streamlined, professional and thoughtful. After applying online, a call was scheduled with Sumayyah Khan, who has explained everything in detail about the company, role and the interview process.
Overall process contains 2 stages one take home Spark/Scala coding assignment and once shortlisted, there will be a 2 hour interview call with recruiters who are really friendly, knowledgeable and made sure the entire process was smooth.
In this round I was asked to prepare a presentation on a data engineering problem which I solved as a Lead and then the discussion of the code which I submitted and finally a business case study discussion.
Through out the process Sumayyah was really helpful and provide quick response for all my queries.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Spark/Scala questions and questions related to the presentation I prepared.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Quantexa (Málaga) in Feb 2023
Interview
The interview process was amazing, first a call with the HR team to get to know and understand my current situation and expectations, since then I had the support and a transparent communication. Second was a technical interview with the Delivery team, who then sent me an assignment to send back to within a week. Once I delivered the assignment, a final interview to resolve doubts, where we were able to understand which role I would best fit into and move forward with the final offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What were my expectations? What do I know about Quantexa? Why Quantexa? Have I worked with financial crimes solutions before?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Quantexa in Mar 2023
Interview
First call by HR to do basic screening, then a take home assignment. 1 week period to do take home assignment in scala spark, you are expected to learn basic scala and spark if you have no experience using it. Assignment and setup is very clear, the team is always ready to answer any queries you have on the assignment. This makes it feel like they are genuinely testing your ability to learn, problem solve and code instead of just testing your memory skill Assignment is then reviewed and comments will be given by the reviewer. After that, it is a panel interview where you can prepare a topic of your choice to do a presentation on. This is to test your ability to communicate technical information in layman term. Followed by a run through of your take home assignment and sharing of your logic as well as some basic spark knowledge test. The panel interview ends with some business knowledge test, where you run through a very simple "case study". If you know what this company do, then it will be very easy to read up on this topic. Overall the interview feels challenging but fair, and it was a great experience going through it
Thanks for sharing your positive interview experience for the Lead Data Engineer role at Quantexa. We're pleased to hear you found our interview process fair and challenging, reflecting our goal of assessing both technical and soft skills. We're glad that our team's support during your take-home assignment was helpful and that you found the experience overall rewarding.
We appreciate your positive feedback and look forward to welcoming you to our team as a Lead Data Engineer!