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Nothing complicated. Just questions about Spark and how it works internally. There was a question on how I choose between different approaches at work (tradeoffs, etc.). The "unexpected" coding session was more like a code review session in reality.
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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Cloudera

4.1
May 21, 2026

Nothing complicated. Just questions about Spark and how it works internally. There was a question on how I choose between different approaches at work (tradeoffs, etc.). The "unexpected" coding session was more like a code review session in reality.

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