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      Big Data Engineer Interview

      11 Nov 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Montreal, QC
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at EY (Montreal, QC) in Nov 2019

      Interview

      The rockbottom of interviews... like seriously, i've been through good and bad interviews but this is just as low as it gets. I was contacted with one of their technical team, i found it weird that no HR or a recruiter was involved but anyway, he told me that he'll send me a take home assignment, which i find is a very good way to evaluate someone so i said ok. I recieved the assignment, the data was pretty big (around 2G), and i was supposed to run some spark work over it, i coded my part and emailed the guy saying i can't run such a big task on my laptop (i could but i really didn't wanna), and that it works just fine on a subset, he can run it himself and verify. his response really shocked me, he said that i need to run the whole set of tasks on the whole dataset and give him the results, and that i will be able to sign up for Google cloud or AWS and i'll get a gift card which i'll be able to use for this. My response was: why the hell would i do that? I've already used up my free credits, and even if i did why would i use them to run your work. P.S: I tried contacting their "privacy officer" to verify that this person is not sneaking around trying to stea other people's work and got no response, please beware of this company and don't share any code that they ask you to do for a "take home assignment"

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      article keyword detection
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      Question 2

      article "sentiment analysis" (does that even exist?)
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      Big Data Engineer Interview

      13 Jan 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at EY

      Interview

      The process involved two interviews. First was with a partner to determine the overall fit to company, team and projects. The second was with the team manager to assess the technical skills.

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      Big Data Engineer Interview

      5 May 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience

      Application

      The process took 3 days. I interviewed at EY (New York, NY) in Mar 2019

      Interview

      Contacted by hiring consultancy for online interview. Rescheduled twice due to miscommunication between hiring consultancy and interview panel. Interviewer was not qualified/experienced enough to interview any experienced candidate. Found it very rare that a candidate is offering his solutions as an almost compilable code and the interviewer is asking just the logic and then jumping to the next question without even getting to a discussion.

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      Question 1

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