Data Engineer Interview Questions

Describe the Snowflake Schema.

Describe the purpose of the .hiverc file in Hive.

Differentiate between a data engineer and data scientist.

What do you know about FSCK?

What occurs if a user submits a new job when NameNode is down?

What is big data?

How does orchestration work?

Describe how Hive is used in the Hadoop ecosystem.

What role does Apache Hadoop’s distributed cache play?