A staple in data engineer technical interview questions and answers, be prepared to answer this one using your hands-on experience. In Hive, .hiverc acts as the initialization file. Whenever you open the CLI (Command Line Interface) in order to write the code for Hive, .hiverc is the first one file that gets loaded. All the parameters that have been initially set by you are contained in this file.   For example, you can set column headers that you want to be visible in the query results, the addition of any jar files, etc. This file is loaded from the hive conf directory.