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Round 1: Technical questions - Common data structures and algorithms (search in sorted list, search in linked list, red-black-tree) - How would you implement a priority queue? - HashMap collision resolution strategies - Examples of probabilistic data structures, advantages - Difference between functional and imperative programming. - How would you represent a graph in-memory? - Difference between columnar and row based database. - Difference between inner and outer join. - Explain MapReduce.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Spotify

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Aug 18, 2022

Round 1: Technical questions - Common data structures and algorithms (search in sorted list, search in linked list, red-black-tree) - How would you implement a priority queue? - HashMap collision resolution strategies - Examples of probabilistic data structures, advantages - Difference between functional and imperative programming. - How would you represent a graph in-memory? - Difference between columnar and row based database. - Difference between inner and outer join. - Explain MapReduce.

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