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Not because they don't know Spark. Not because their SQL is weak. But because when the interviewer asks "how would you make this pipeline reliable?", they freeze.
The answer was never one clever trick. It's idempotency, retries, checkpointing, monitoring, and data quality checks. Say those five and you've already beaten most candidates.
I put together 20 pages of handwritten notes covering exactly what DE interviews actually test:
→ SQL that goes past joins (windows, dedup, running totals)
→ Data modeling: star schema, SCD Type 2, grain
→ Spark internals: shuffle, skew, narrow vs wide
→ Kafka, Airflow, file formats, system design
→ Behavioral + rapid-fire one-liners
No fluff. Just the questions that keep showing up, with answers you can actually reason through out loud.
Swipe through the carousel. Then grab the full set here: https://www.prepnplaced.com/prepnplaced-notes
One more thing 👇
Notes get you through the rounds. A real project gets you the callback.
That's why we're running a free webinar on building an End-to-End Data Engineering Project — the kind you can actually put on your resume and defend in an interview. Ingestion to warehouse to dashboard, the whole thing.
📅 [16 August Sunday | 1 PM IST - 3PM IST ] by Senior DataEngineer Confidential | Ex JLL | 7+ YOE
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• Silver — clean, dedupe and join with PySpark
• Gold — curated business tables ready for reporting
• Why the medallion layers exist, and how to answer that in an interview
• Live Q&A at the end
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Free live session this Sunday — Databricks Medallion Pipeline from AWS S3
What we'll build, live:
• Mount the S3 bucket and read the raw files
• Bronze — land the data as-is in Delta tables
• Silver — clean, dedupe and join with PySpark
• Gold — curated business tables ready for reporting
• Why the medallion layers exist, and how to answer that in an interview
• Live Q&A at the end
Who should come: anyone with some Python or SQL who wants a real Databricks project to point at. No prior Databricks work needed.
📅 Sunday, 23 August · 1:00 PM IST · 2 hours
Host: Durgesh Yadav — Sr. Data Engineer @ 7-Eleven, ex-Target
Reserve your seat 👇
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What we'll build, live:
• Mount the S3 bucket and read the raw files
• Bronze — land the data as-is in Delta tables
• Silver — clean, dedupe and join with PySpark
• Gold — curated business tables ready for reporting
• Why the medallion layers exist, and how to answer that in an interview
• Live Q&A at the end
Who should come: anyone with some Python or SQL who wants a real Databricks project to point at. No prior Databricks work needed.
📅 Sunday, 23 August · 1:00 PM IST · 2 hours
Host: Durgesh Yadav — Sr. Data Engineer @ 7-Eleven, ex-Target
Reserve your seat 👇
https://www.prepnplaced.com/webinar/databricks-medallion
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