I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at EPAM Systems
Interview
one pre-screening round(telephonic/15mins)
one technical interview (skype/30-45 mins)
HR/Director Interview(15-30 mins)
Overall the interview process is professional. Technical round is difficult and they cover all the big data topics. Must prepare for Spark, Hadoop Architecture, YARN, MapReduce, Hive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Involved knowledge on Hadoop Architecture, Hive, Spark, Sqoop, Mapreduce(algorithms)
There are a two rounds of technical interviews (local and overseas experts). Questions that were being asked during the interview include SQL, Python and Pyspark, cloud knowledge around the data storage, authentication type, data tools like Data Factory, Databricks
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Bogotá, Bogota) in Mar 2026
Interview
First a talk with RRHH, then a technical interview with live coding and then another technical interview with a manager, Then they told me they will start looking for a client (3 months ago) and now its just ghosting.
I had 4 interviews. 1 technical for EPAM screening, 1 EPAM manager interview. 1 project interview(Technical). 1 Client interview.
Timeframe was from late december to Early February
Good luck !
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what would you use for SQL to Databricks migration: JDBC, ODBC, ADF Copy activity
