Slalom Build Data Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Slalom Build.
Senior Data Engineer
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.
- Tell me about Scrum ceremonies.
- How do you handle conflict resolution?
- Do you have experience with SQL?
Data Engineer
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.
- Can you explain SQL queries, clauses, star schema, and the concepts of primary/foreign keys?
- How do you approach file parsing in Python?
Data Engineer Intern
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.
- Questions about Python and SQL
- Some basic behavioral questions
Slalom Build Data Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Slalom Build interview reports.
“What is a Snowflake schema?”
Read reports →“Can you explain the purpose of lambda functions in Python?”
Read reports →“What is a Star schema?”
Read reports →“How do you approach file parsing in Python?”
Read reports →“Could you explain SQL joins?”
Read report →“Can you solve this Python coding question?”
Read report →“Tell me about Scrum ceremonies.”
Read report →“What are some theoretical concepts related to data engineering?”
Read report →“How do you use SQL?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 8 Slalom Build interview reports.