The Home Depot interview questions

There were questions related to process engineering and the difference tools used for Root Cause Analysis. I was asked behaviorial questions regarding how to handle multiple asks from stakeholders. I was asked some people leadership questions.

I met with 2 current mid-level data engineers, so the interview focused more on the engineer side, with about 10-15% of the questions pertaining to Tableau. As of 2026, Home Depot uses a GCP, Tableau, dbt, Snowflake stack. I did not have experience with Tableau or dbt. I am Power Bi certified and have wowrked with the other tools. A recruiter got me an interview under the condition of accepting a lower salary (~ $105,000. Atlanta, GA. Fully remote. 3 weeks onboarding.) . The feedback was that I did well. I seemed like a competente data engineer, but I was not familiar with the toole. For this reason I believe they opted to move the role to public facing instead of relying on recruiters to fill the spot. I was not offered a position. Based on our discussion, they need someone to be able to be useful immediately. If you want to work at Home Depot be ready to speak on data Engineering at the scope of petabytes and terabytes of data, data security, compute efficiency, etc for a massive corporation.