Got a recruiter ping for a Senior Data Engineer role at UPS, focused on their logistics and network data platform team. Interview is in about 3 weeks.
I've been reading what I can find online but most of it is from 2021-2022. Things change. Anyone been through their tech interview recently, especially for data or analytics engineering roles? Specifically curious about: how technical does it actually get (system design? SQL? coding?) is it all behavioral or a mix anything specific to their logistics/ops context I should be thinking about
Drop any data points you have. Appreciate it.
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ds_dmitri
I interviewed for a data science adjacent role there about 6 months ago. technical bar was moderate. got a SQL question about aggregating package delivery data across regions, nothing fancy but you had to think about window functions. also one system design question about building a pipeline for real-time tracking data. behavioral was heavy, probably 60% of the total time.
backend_bekah
heard from someone who went through it that they care a lot about scalability and fault tolerance specifically in the context of high-volume event streams. makes sense for a company processing millions of package scans per day. brush up on exactly-once delivery semantics and what happens when a consumer goes down mid-batch.
de_derek
ok exactly-once semantics in Kafka was already on my list but this confirms I should go deeper. thanks.
infra_ines
UPS runs a lot of their own infra and some of it is not exactly cutting edge. don't be surprised if the conversation touches on on-prem vs cloud hybrid stuff. they've been migrating but it's a long road.