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      Senior Data Engineer Interview

      18 Jan 2024
      Anonymous employee
      Tokyo
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Rakuten (Tokyo)

      Interview

      got Multiple round, 6 in total, first tech related, sql, then architecture, then profiling. People were kind, it was more heavy on the architecture design than pure sql or python code

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      SQL optimisation, project you have done
      Answer question

      Other Senior Data Engineer interview reviews for Rakuten

      Senior Data Engineer Interview

      13 Mar 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten in Mar 2024

      Interview

      The interview process is fast 30 - 60 minutes. But, when 10 minutes running if they are not interest with you they will end of the interview. . The interview always give you a UNCLEAR questions! You need to ask more clarity with them.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Rate yourself using Python, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, etc?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      How much data do you process in 1 day?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      What is Data Skew in Partition?
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Interviewer give me function Deduplicate(id, name, trx_time)
      Answer question

      Question 5

      What error exception do you get in Spark?
      Answer question

      Senior Data Engineer Interview

      19 May 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Rakuten (Bengaluru) in Nov 2021

      Interview

      Interview process was smooth and response time was very quick. After 3 rounds of technical interview which was quite a good experience and difficulty level is based on the position.Offer letter was sent within a week.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Different types of joins with example, Windows functions and data partition
      Answer question