I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Target (Bengaluru) in Nov 2022
Interview
The interview had 4 rounds ,
* System Design - Expected lots of details and wanted to get into nitty gritties of designing a system
* Deep Dive into different technologies especially Kafka internals and databases. Scalability, Testing, Distributed systems concepts etc
* Coding Round - easy level , two problems asked to code and then it was more discussion around the data engineering landscape in Target
* Hiring Manager round - Looked at culture fit
Target came across as a very friendly organization and the process was very seamless.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. How do you improve your kafka pipelines if they are slow, what investigations will you carry out
2. What stretch roles did you undertake