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Data Engineering

Pipelines, warehouses, and the modern data stack. · Generated 26 August 2026

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What interviews ask, round by round

Round 1 · Recruiter Screening

Walk me through your Spark project end-to-end.
Which data formats have you used and why?
Rate your SQL proficiency with an example.

Round 2 · Technical Deep-Dive

Write SQL for second-highest salary without LIMIT.
Explain Spark shuffle and how to reduce it.
Broadcast join vs sort-merge join — when?

Round 3 · Pipeline Design

Design a pipeline ingesting 1TB daily clickstream.
How do you handle late-arriving data in pipelines?
Design idempotent backfill for a failed Airflow DAG.

Round 4 · Managerial Round

Tell me about a production data outage you owned.
How do you handle ambiguous requirements from stakeholders?
Why are you leaving your current company?

Market demand for this track

≈ 80 active openings in India (last 30 days, est.) · trend +567%

Role	Est. openings
Data Engineer	≈ 46
Data warehouse Architect / Consultant	≈ 10
BI Architect	≈ 7
Data Analyst	≈ 4

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

Skills heating up ▲ / cooling down ▼

Skill	Demand	Why
GenAI / LLM engineering	▲ +62%	Every GCC is staffing AI teams
Databricks + Spark	▲ +38%	Lakehouse migrations accelerating
Kubernetes & platform eng	▲ +31%	Platform teams replacing pure ops
dbt + analytics engineering	▲ +27%	Modern data stack adoption
Power BI + DAX	▲ +19%	Analytics hiring steady in GCCs
Manual QA testing	▼ -34%	Automation replacing manual cycles
Legacy PHP maintenance	▼ -22%	Stacks consolidating to newer runtimes
Hadoop administration	▼ -28%	Workloads moving to cloud lakehouses
Excel-only reporting	▼ -17%	BI tools now the baseline

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