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Alliant Credit Union Data Engineer Interview Questions

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 4 questions + 3 drills · ~62 min
Design Daily Count Reconciliation ProcessEasy

Explain how to design a daily row-count reconciliation process between source and warehouse tables using aggregations and date-based checks.

JoinsData WranglingAggregationsAlliant Credit Union
Star vs Snowflake for Meta AnalyticsEasy

Explain star and snowflake schemas, their tradeoffs, and when to use each in Meta-scale analytics systems.

Alliant Credit Union
Break Reporting Queries with CTEsMedium

Explain how CTEs split a complex reporting query into readable, reusable steps.

SubqueriesData WranglingCTEsAlliant Credit Union
Compare Periods with LAG and LEADMedium

Explain how LAG and LEAD compare current rows to previous or next periods in time-series SQL analysis.

Window FunctionsLag/LeadDate FunctionsAlliant Credit Union
Monthly Sales Trends by CategoryMedium
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Aggregate monthly sales by product category and use LAG to calculate month-over-month changes.

InfrastructureToolsData WranglingTotal Wine & MoreInc.Benjamin Moore
Contact Center Agent Performance MetricsHard
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Compute daily agent call KPIs and SLA using joins, aggregations, and window ranking in a contact center model.

ETLAggregationsData ModelingADP
Data Cleaning and PrepMedium
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Prepare valid encounter records by trimming text, excluding missing values, and removing invalid charges.

missing valuesdata cleaningData WranglingMassachusetts General HospitalCognizantDataVisor
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Pipelines38 questions · ~304 min
Design an ETL Pipeline with Data Quality ChecksMedium

Develop an ETL pipeline to process 10TB of daily sales data with strict data quality validations and orchestration requirements.

Deep LearningAlliant Credit Union
Backfill Without Duplicate RecordsHard

Approach for rerunning failed pipeline ranges and correcting data safely with idempotent writes and quality checks.

IdempotencyBackfillingQualityAlliant Credit Union
Fraud Detection Batch vs StreamingMedium

Design a fraud pipeline that compares batch, streaming, and hybrid architectures for 120K tx/sec with sub-300 ms decisions and reconciled hourly tables.

Stream ProcessingETLBatch ProcessingAlliant Credit Union
Data Validation in ETL PipelinesMedium

Approach for validating ETL data with schema, business rule, and pipeline-level checks.

strategiesETLdata validationAlliant Credit Union
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