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Data Engineering

Pipelines, warehouses, and the modern data stack. · Generated 10 September 2026

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What interviews ask, round by round

Round 1 · Recruiter Screening

  1. Walk me through your recent data pipeline project
  2. Which cloud and ETL tools have you used?
  3. What is your expected CTC and notice period?

Round 2 · Technical Deep Dive

  1. Explain Spark partitioning and shuffle internals
  2. Optimize a slow SQL query — live exercise
  3. Difference between Spark RDD, DataFrame, Dataset?

Round 3 · System Design

  1. Design a real-time order pipeline for Flipkart scale
  2. How would you handle late-arriving streaming data?
  3. Design CDC from MySQL to a data lake

Round 4 · Managerial Round

  1. Tell me about a pipeline failure you owned
  2. How do you prioritize conflicting stakeholder requests?
  3. Why are you leaving your current company?

Market demand for this track

≈ 85 active openings in India (last 30 days, est.) · trend +554%

RoleEst. openings
Data Engineer≈ 39
Data warehouse Architect / Consultant≈ 10
BI Architect≈ 9
Software Development - Other≈ 8

Portal mix: scraper 100%. Verify any of this yourself — open Naukri, search the role, filter “Last 7 days”, count.

Skills heating up ▲ / cooling down ▼

SkillDemandWhy
python development▲ +116%61 postings in the last 30 days
python▲ +18%166 postings in the last 30 days
terraform▼ -80%8 postings in the last 30 days
jenkins▼ -79%7 postings in the last 30 days
pyspark▼ -75%10 postings in the last 30 days
github▼ -73%9 postings in the last 30 days
devops▼ -72%19 postings in the last 30 days
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