Why you should use Pig Online Test?

The Big Data - Pig Test makes use of scenario-based questions to test for on-the-job skills as opposed to theoretical knowledge, ensuring that candidates who do well on this screening test have the relavant skills. The questions are designed to covered following on-the-job aspects: Working knowledge of Apache Pig and its ecosystem Understanding of Hadoop and its components Proficiency in MapReduce programming paradigm Ability to write Pig Latin scripts for data processing Knowledge of Pig Latin functions and their usage Experience in debugging and optimizing Pig scripts Familiarity with Apache Pig UDFs (User Defined Functions) Understanding of Pig Latin data types and schemas Knowledge of Pig Latin built-in functions and operators Ability to analyze and process large data sets efficiently

Pig Online Test

About the test:

The Pig Online test uses scenario-based MCQs to evaluate candidates on their knowledge of Apache Pig, including their ability to write Pig Latin scripts, work with data types and built-in functions, and optimize Pig queries. The test aims to evaluate a candidate's ability to work with Pig and perform data analysis tasks effectively.

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9 reasons why

Adaface Pig Test is the most accurate way to shortlist Big Data Developers

Reason #1

Tests for on-the-job skills

The Pig Online Test helps recruiters and hiring managers identify qualified candidates from a pool of resumes, and helps in taking objective hiring decisions. It reduces the administrative overhead of interviewing too many candidates and saves time by filtering out unqualified candidates at the first step of the hiring process.

The test screens for the following skills that hiring managers look for in candidates:

Ability to write Apache Pig queries for data processing
Understanding of Hadoop framework and its components
Knowledge of MapReduce programming model
Understanding of Pig Latin scripting language
Ability to optimize and tune Pig scripts for performance

Reason #2

No trick questions

Traditional assessment tools use trick questions and puzzles for the screening, which creates a lot of frustration among candidates about having to go through irrelevant screening assessments.

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The main reason we started Adaface is that traditional pre-employment assessment platforms are not a fair way for companies to evaluate candidates. At Adaface, our mission is to help companies find great candidates by assessing on-the-job skills required for a role.

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Reason #3

Non-googleable questions

We have a very high focus on the quality of questions that test for on-the-job skills. Every question is non-googleable and we have a very high bar for the level of subject matter experts we onboard to create these questions. We have crawlers to check if any of the questions are leaked online. If/ when a question gets leaked, we get an alert. We change the question for you & let you know.

How we design questions

These are just a small sample from our library of 10,000+ questions. The actual questions on this Big Data - Pig Test will be non-googleable.

🧐 Question
Easy Count number of occurrences Mappers Reducers	Solve
Chusk works as Hadoop developer at Pesla Inc. Chusk is tasked with processing input data to count number of occurrences of each unique word. Chusk did the following to achieve this: 1. Tokenize each word and emit lateral value 1 with Mapper 2. Reducer increments counter for each literal 1 it receives Chusk is now tasked with optimizing this by using a combiner. Will Chusk be able to reuse existing reducers as combiners? A: Yes B: No C: Because the sum operation is both associative and commutative and the input and output types to the reduce method match D: Because the sum operation in the Reducer is incompatible with the operation of a combiner E: Because the combiner is incompatible with a Mapper, which doesn't use the same data type for both the key and value F: Insufficient information
Medium Hive ngrams	Solve
Assuming the following Hive statements execute successfully, choose the correct statements that describe the result: from fooddata select context_ngrams(sentences(lines), array("twiggy", "romato", null), 68); A. A bigram of the top 68 sentences that contain the substring "twiggy romato" in the lines column of the input data A1 table. B. An 68-value ngram of sentences that contain the words "twiggy" or "romato" in the lines column of the fooddata table. C. A trigram of the top 68 sentences that contain "twiggy romato" followed by a null space in the lines column of the fooddata table. D. A frequency distribution of the top 68 words that follow the subsequence "twiggy romato" in the lines column of the fooddata table.
Easy P Q relations Pig	Solve
Consider the following two relations, P and Q: What is the output of the following Pig command? Q = GROUP P BY p2; DUMP Q;

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill
	Easy Count number of occurrences Mappers Reducers	3 mins Hadoop	Solve
Chusk works as Hadoop developer at Pesla Inc. Chusk is tasked with processing input data to count number of occurrences of each unique word. Chusk did the following to achieve this: 1. Tokenize each word and emit lateral value 1 with Mapper 2. Reducer increments counter for each literal 1 it receives Chusk is now tasked with optimizing this by using a combiner. Will Chusk be able to reuse existing reducers as combiners? A: Yes B: No C: Because the sum operation is both associative and commutative and the input and output types to the reduce method match D: Because the sum operation in the Reducer is incompatible with the operation of a combiner E: Because the combiner is incompatible with a Mapper, which doesn't use the same data type for both the key and value F: Insufficient information
	Medium Hive ngrams	2 mins Hadoop	Solve
Assuming the following Hive statements execute successfully, choose the correct statements that describe the result: from fooddata select context_ngrams(sentences(lines), array("twiggy", "romato", null), 68); A. A bigram of the top 68 sentences that contain the substring "twiggy romato" in the lines column of the input data A1 table. B. An 68-value ngram of sentences that contain the words "twiggy" or "romato" in the lines column of the fooddata table. C. A trigram of the top 68 sentences that contain "twiggy romato" followed by a null space in the lines column of the fooddata table. D. A frequency distribution of the top 68 words that follow the subsequence "twiggy romato" in the lines column of the fooddata table.
	Easy P Q relations Pig	2 mins Hadoop	Solve
Consider the following two relations, P and Q: What is the output of the following Pig command? Q = GROUP P BY p2; DUMP Q;

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill	💪 Difficulty	⌛ Time
	Count number of occurrences Mappers Reducers	Hadoop	Easy	3 mins	Solve
Chusk works as Hadoop developer at Pesla Inc. Chusk is tasked with processing input data to count number of occurrences of each unique word. Chusk did the following to achieve this: 1. Tokenize each word and emit lateral value 1 with Mapper 2. Reducer increments counter for each literal 1 it receives Chusk is now tasked with optimizing this by using a combiner. Will Chusk be able to reuse existing reducers as combiners? A: Yes B: No C: Because the sum operation is both associative and commutative and the input and output types to the reduce method match D: Because the sum operation in the Reducer is incompatible with the operation of a combiner E: Because the combiner is incompatible with a Mapper, which doesn't use the same data type for both the key and value F: Insufficient information
	Hive ngrams	Hadoop	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Assuming the following Hive statements execute successfully, choose the correct statements that describe the result: from fooddata select context_ngrams(sentences(lines), array("twiggy", "romato", null), 68); A. A bigram of the top 68 sentences that contain the substring "twiggy romato" in the lines column of the input data A1 table. B. An 68-value ngram of sentences that contain the words "twiggy" or "romato" in the lines column of the fooddata table. C. A trigram of the top 68 sentences that contain "twiggy romato" followed by a null space in the lines column of the fooddata table. D. A frequency distribution of the top 68 words that follow the subsequence "twiggy romato" in the lines column of the fooddata table.
	P Q relations Pig	Hadoop	Easy	2 mins	Solve
Consider the following two relations, P and Q: What is the output of the following Pig command? Q = GROUP P BY p2; DUMP Q;

Reason #4

1200+ customers in 75 countries

With Adaface, we were able to optimise our initial screening process by upwards of 75%, freeing up precious time for both hiring managers and our talent acquisition team alike!

Brandon Lee, Head of People, Love, Bonito

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Reason #5

Designed for elimination, not selection

The most important thing while implementing the pre-employment Big Data - Pig Test in your hiring process is that it is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. In other words: you want to use the test to eliminate the candidates who do poorly on the test, not to select the candidates who come out at the top. While they are super valuable, pre-employment tests do not paint the entire picture of a candidate’s abilities, knowledge, and motivations. Multiple easy questions are more predictive of a candidate's ability than fewer hard questions. Harder questions are often "trick" based questions, which do not provide any meaningful signal about the candidate's skillset.

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Reason #6

1 click candidate invites

Email invites: You can send candidates an email invite to the Big Data - Pig Test from your dashboard by entering their email address.

Public link: You can create a public link for each test that you can share with candidates.

API or integrations: You can invite candidates directly from your ATS by using our pre-built integrations with popular ATS systems or building a custom integration with your in-house ATS.

Reason #7

Detailed scorecards & benchmarks

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Reason #8

High completion rate

Adaface tests are conversational, low-stress, and take just 25-40 mins to complete.

This is why Adaface has the highest test-completion rate (86%), which is more than 2x better than traditional assessments.

Reason #9

Advanced Proctoring

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About the Pig Assessment Test

Why you should use Pre-employment Pig Online Test?

The Big Data - Pig Test makes use of scenario-based questions to test for on-the-job skills as opposed to theoretical knowledge, ensuring that candidates who do well on this screening test have the relavant skills. The questions are designed to covered following on-the-job aspects:

Working knowledge of Apache Pig and its ecosystem
Understanding of Hadoop and its components
Proficiency in MapReduce programming paradigm
Ability to write Pig Latin scripts for data processing
Knowledge of Pig Latin functions and their usage
Experience in debugging and optimizing Pig scripts
Familiarity with Apache Pig UDFs (User Defined Functions)
Understanding of Pig Latin data types and schemas
Knowledge of Pig Latin built-in functions and operators
Ability to analyze and process large data sets efficiently

Once the test is sent to a candidate, the candidate receives a link in email to take the test. For each candidate, you will receive a detailed report with skills breakdown and benchmarks to shortlist the top candidates from your pool.

What topics are covered in the Pig Online Test?

Pig
Pig is a high-level scripting language developed for Apache Hadoop, used for analyzing large data sets. It provides a simple and expressive way to handle data, allowing users to write complex MapReduce tasks easily. Measuring Pig skills in this test helps recruiters assess the candidate's ability to process and analyze big data efficiently.
Big Data Analysis
Big Data Analysis refers to the process of examining and interpreting large and complex data sets to uncover hidden patterns, trends, and insights. Measuring Big Data Analysis skills in this test enables recruiters to evaluate a candidate's proficiency in processing and analyzing massive amounts of data, which is essential in today's data-driven world.
Hadoop
Hadoop is an open-source framework that enables distributed storage and processing of large data sets across clusters of computers. Measuring Hadoop skills in this test helps recruiters gauge a candidate's understanding of this popular technology and their ability to work with distributed systems effectively.
Full list of covered topics
The actual topics of the questions in the final test will depend on your job description and requirements. However, here's a list of topics you can expect the questions for Big Data - Pig Test to be based on.
Pig Latin
Loading and storing data in Pig
Filtering and transforming data in Pig
Joining and grouping data in Pig
Using built-in functions in Pig
Working with Pig UDFs
Debugging and troubleshooting in Pig
Performance optimization in Pig
Pig and Hadoop integration
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
Hadoop MapReduce framework
Hadoop YARN resource management
Hadoop ecosystem components (Hive, HBase, etc.)
Input formats in Hadoop
Output formats in Hadoop
Mapper and Reducer classes
Hadoop cluster setup and configuration
Hadoop job submission and monitoring
Data serialization in Hadoop
Hadoop batch processing
Hadoop streaming
MapReduce partitioning and sorting
Combiners and partitioners in MapReduce
MapReduce input and output formats
MapReduce counters
MapReduce job chaining
Distributed cache in MapReduce
Job scheduling and task scheduling in Hadoop
Hadoop security and authentication
Pig and MapReduce integration

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What roles can I use the Pig Online Test for?

Big Data Developer
Big Data Developer - Pig

How is the Pig Online Test customized for senior candidates?

For intermediate/ experienced candidates, we customize the assessment questions to include advanced topics and increase the difficulty level of the questions. This might include adding questions on topics like

Experience in working with Pig Latin joins and aggregations
Understanding of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
Familiarity with Pig Latin transformations and filters
Proficiency in writing MapReduce programs in Java
Knowledge of Hadoop cluster setup and configuration
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve Pig execution errors
Experience in working with Pig Latin control structures
Understanding of data loading and storing in Pig
Knowledge of Pig Latin data transformations
Ability to perform data validation and cleansing in Pig

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The hiring managers felt that through the technical questions that they asked during the panel interviews, they were able to tell which candidates had better scores, and differentiated with those who did not score as well. They are highly satisfied with the quality of candidates shortlisted with the Adaface screening.

85%

reduction in screening time

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Pig Hiring Test FAQs

Can I combine multiple skills into one custom assessment?

Yes, absolutely. Custom assessments are set up based on your job description, and will include questions on all must-have skills you specify. Here's a quick guide on how you can request a custom test.

Do you have any anti-cheating or proctoring features in place?

We have the following anti-cheating features in place:

Non-googleable questions
IP proctoring
Screen proctoring
Web proctoring
Webcam proctoring
Plagiarism detection
Secure browser
Copy paste protection

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How do I interpret test scores?

The primary thing to keep in mind is that an assessment is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. A skills assessment is optimized to help you eliminate candidates who are not technically qualified for the role, it is not optimized to help you find the best candidate for the role. So the ideal way to use an assessment is to decide a threshold score (typically 55%, we help you benchmark) and invite all candidates who score above the threshold for the next rounds of interview.

What experience level can I use this test for?

Each Adaface assessment is customized to your job description/ ideal candidate persona (our subject matter experts will pick the right questions for your assessment from our library of 10000+ questions). This assessment can be customized for any experience level.

Does every candidate get the same questions?

Yes, it makes it much easier for you to compare candidates. Options for MCQ questions and the order of questions are randomized. We have anti-cheating/ proctoring features in place. In our enterprise plan, we also have the option to create multiple versions of the same assessment with questions of similar difficulty levels.