Airbus·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen
May 2026
Interviewed for a data analyst role at Airbus, got one technical question about anomaly detection on flight data records. Pretty niche stuff, felt underprepared for how domain-specific it got.
- Given a Feature Data Record (FDR), how would you go about detecting anomalies in it?
“I knew the general anomaly detection approaches but the FDR context threw me a bit.”