dezyre insync “interview tips to get hired by big data hadoop companies”
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Ways to Distinguish yourself in the Big Data
job market
Do’s and Don’ts during interviewsWhat Big Data Recruiters / Hiring Mgr.’s are
looking for in resumes and interviews.
Some BD positions*
Our focus is on Big Data opportunities Vendors like: Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR,
SAP Their customers and partners:
Oil and Gas: (VERY large petroleum company) Service Providers to Auto and Ins.: (Agero, etc.) Social Media: (Match.com, etc.) Partners: (nVent, etc.) Government: (Civilian and Defense Depts.)
CareerPlanners Services Inc.
• Have a positive attitude!!!• There are lot’s of smart
people looking for jobs with casual attitudes.
• Why is the position open?• Differentiate yourself
• Self-improvement through training• Companies expect this
• Learn from criticism
• No long resume loaded with buzzwords (3-4 pages max!)
• Be yourself
• Know the job’s skill requirements• “Must have…”• “Nice to have…”
• Demonstrate effort• Don’t always look for short-
cuts• Build clusters from
scratch
• At the end, tell the interviewer that:• You can do the job!• You can start in their
timeframe!• You are within their budget!• You REALLY want the job!
Basic Interview(Prep)
• Technical interviews can be long• Eat something prior
• Demonstrate effort• Don’t always look for
short-cuts• Build clusters from
scratch• Participate in LI
Groups, Meetups, etc.
• Are you will to travel?• Be flexible
• Do you truly support Open Source?
Good recruiters will know what to expect:
• Online code review?• White boarding?• Build a prototypes based on
specs• Types of questions to be
asked:• Situational• Basics: “When to use
Hadoop and not relational data stores”…
• Detailed: “What happens when a datanode fails?”…
• How strong is your Java?• “It needs to be stronger.”
Big Data Interview(Prep)
Resumes: Runaway resumes Using JUST Buzzwords Employment dates that don’t match up Misspellings Grammatical errors
Join and participate in relevant online communities. Like: LinkedIn (Groups), GitHub, Google Code, WANdisco, etc
Watch what you say – social network / online communities!
Mgr’s and (good) recruiters monitor your online activity.
Pay Attention to:
Professional Services Hadoop Development (Cloudera, HWX, MapR or
HDInsight, etc.) Hadoop Infrastructure Admin Architects
Specialty Technologies Streaming (Cascading, Spark, Storm, InfoSphere
Streams, etc.) ETL & Data Pipeline Development (Data Warehouses) Analytics Security
Opportunities
Bob Kelly [email protected]
Kim Kelly [email protected]
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