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Slalom Build Data Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.

Based on 8 interview experiences · FREE TO READ

3 Rounds average
Average Typical difficulty
62.5% Positive experience

Candidate interview experiences

First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Slalom Build.

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Senior Data Engineer

Engineering · a year ago

Senior Average Positive experience Decline offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Offer
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding

First an interview with HR, then a three hour long interview with the technical team, scrum team, and engineering leader, and another interview at the end to review compensation and details about the job description, benefits etc.

Confirmed questions5 questions
  • Tell me about Scrum ceremonies.
  • How do you handle conflict resolution?
  • Do you have experience with SQL?
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Data Engineer

Engineering · more than a year ago

Mid Easy Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral

HR did an initial screening, then I had an hour-long technical interview with a senior employee. The final interview was supposed to be 2-3 hours and cover both technical and behavioral aspects. HR mentioned the team wanted to schedule it but had scheduling conflicts for about 3 weeks due to engineer availability. After about 4 weeks, HR finally gave me a time slot for the final interview, but less than 24 hours before it was supposed to happen, they told me all offers had been sent out and my interview was cancelled. From my perspective, this seems like bad management by the company/higher-ups; they should at least do all the interviews before deciding on offers. My advice to candidates is to try and schedule or push for interviews as early as possible because this company seems to operate on a first-come, first-served basis. My advice to employers is to have the decency to complete all interviews, as candidates invest weeks in the process, and it's really disappointing to have your final interview cancelled so last minute.

Confirmed questions2 questions
  • Can you explain SQL queries, clauses, star schema, and the concepts of primary/foreign keys?
  • How do you approach file parsing in Python?
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Data Engineer Intern

Engineering

Intern Average Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral

It was a 15 min phone interview, then a tech interview round, and a final round that was tech + behavioral. The whole thing took over 4 weeks. HR gave feedback after the rejection letter, which was nice.

Confirmed questions2 questions
  • Questions about Python and SQL
  • Some basic behavioral questions

Slalom Build Data Engineer Interview Questions

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Can you explain the purpose of lambda functions in Python?

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Formats, difficulty and experience

Across all 8 Slalom Build interview reports.

Interview formats

Technical 42.1%
Behavioral 36.8%
Coding 15.8%
Case 5.3%

Interview difficulty

Easy 37.5%
Average 50%
Difficult 12.5%

Candidate experience

Positive 62.5%
Neutral 25%
Negative 12.5%