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The most difficult question was a technical one that I fumbled the answer for. I was asked to provide the pseudo-code for a binary search algorithm. It had been some time since I actually used the algorithm; but I did end up providing a version of it that I derived on my own after about 10 minutes of talking through the problem.
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Hadoop Engineer

Interviewed at eBay

3.9
Nov 20, 2012

The most difficult question was a technical one that I fumbled the answer for. I was asked to provide the pseudo-code for a binary search algorithm. It had been some time since I actually used the algorithm; but I did end up providing a version of it that I derived on my own after about 10 minutes of talking through the problem.

More related to architecture and performance Difference between hive and hbase? Why set hive.execution.engine = tez; works faster than mapreduce job? How can we provide good performance except partioning and bucketing? What all techniques we can provide for good performance ? Which file format is better ORC or parquet ? Map side join and reduce side join?
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Bigdata Hadoop Developer

Interviewed at KPMG

3.6
Dec 6, 2017

More related to architecture and performance Difference between hive and hbase? Why set hive.execution.engine = tez; works faster than mapreduce job? How can we provide good performance except partioning and bucketing? What all techniques we can provide for good performance ? Which file format is better ORC or parquet ? Map side join and reduce side join?

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