I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Bengaluru) in Jan 2015
Interview
1. Recruitment analyst got in touch with me through LinkedIn. Had basic discussions about the job and my interests
2. The second one was with the Tech Support Director wherein the job prospects and my skills were discussed
3. The next two interviews were completely focused on technical skills and problem solving skills
4. Next one was with the India GM [face to face]
5. Last was with the Tech Support Director and one of the technical team member [face to face]
Almost all the interviews were very focused on Techincal / problem solving skills
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
My primary experience has been with Oracle. Most of the questions were around problem solving in Linux/Oracle, What is big data problem, how to big data could be managed [non-hadoop front] and basics of Hadoop.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Bengaluru)
Interview
1) HR call and screening
2) Manager + technical
3) technical
4) All above 3 steps are telephonic, now it is on-site pure technical
5) HR
Hr will call and do the initial screening. After that it will be telephonic round , followed by another technical , followed by another on-site technical , then meeting with senior manager.
If you ask for a update after the interview like after 2 days via mail hr will respond immediate. Good work by hr
Overall good.........
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ssh debugging , which are the files required for ssh , not id_rsa files
What are the steps to resolve server slowness
What will you do if the application team complains of application slowness
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Bengaluru) in Jun 2017
Interview
This is the best and toughest interview i ever attended.
I had around 4 rounds- 3 pure technical(unix+hadoop), last round- hadoop+HR.
Process took around 2 weeks and it started with a HR mail with few questions on our experience, role and why hortonworks.
They were in search of a unix admin who are willing to learn hadoop. So they were firing questions on issues and debugging in unix. I would say this is tuff.
Coming to hadoop, believe me they are experts. They asked everything in detailed and very patient enough to let me explain everything i knew. And if my answers were wrong they explained me what is correct. Pretty good right.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Santa Clara, CA) in Apr 2016
Interview
The Interview process was very quick and they are very Responsive. A Gentleman from HR team called me and asked my experience and other details and then a 30 mins screening with Senior Hr Recruiter and then two rounds of Technical Phone Interview and then an Onsite Interview with Four members, Senior Director, Sr Engineer, Technical Lead and Tech Support manager. All of them made me feel very comfortable and questions were crisp and Technical. I got my Interview feedback within two hours which is Super Awesome (very rare with other companies) I'm really impressed with their swift response. Special thanks to Senior HR who is very prompt in answering my questions and calls.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About Hadoop, HDP, Most of Linux question since am a Linux admin and real time issues, scenarios and troubleshooting questions
Technical Support Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Hortonworks with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Technical Support Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Hortonworks overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Hortonworks as a Technical Support Engineer according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 26%
Phone interview: 26%
Group panel interview: 13%
Background check: 9%
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