Years of Experience: 2.5 Years
Previous Company: Micron Technology

Current Compensation:
Company: Product-based
Base Salary: ₹13.2 LPA
Total Compensation (TC): ₹15 LPA
Position: Data Engineer 1
Location: Hyderabad (Hybrid, transitioned from 2 day WFO per week to 4 days)
Tech Stack: GCP
Notice period: 2 Months

Offer Received: Lloyds bacnking group:
Base Salary: ₹20 LPA (1LPA PF + 19)
Annual Bonus: ₹1 L (paid at end of year according to performance)
Total Compensation (TC): ₹21 LPA
Position: DE 2
Location: Hyderabad (Hybrid, 1-2 WFO per week)
Tech Stack: GCP
Notice period: 2 Months

Interview Experience: No OA Because one of my friend referred and i had strong profile which matched completely with JD.

Round 1
Deep discussion on projects

• why choose this tech stack
• Alerting + Monitoring
• Deployment strategies used
• CI/CD
• Can you write Airflow code

SQL Questions on window functions

Round 2
Asked technical Questions

• spark vs hadoop
• spark transform, jobs, stages
• spark sql (window functions)
• Sql join questions
• Real life scenarios where joins are used
• many more on sql and spark

Round 3 HR

Verdict Selected