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Apple Data Engineer Interview Questions

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 9 questions · ~126 min
Design a Data Model and SQL QueriesHard
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Design a transactional data model, then calculate monthly customer revenue and rankings with joins, aggregation, and window functions.

Joinsdatabase designAggregationsApple
Rolling Engagement Metrics SQLHard
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Calculate seven-day engagement totals, period changes, and daily category rankings for Apple users.

Window FunctionsanalyticsLag/LeadApple
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Coding18 questions · ~252 min
Hard Python Tree TraversalHard
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Return a binary tree's vertical order using breadth-first traversal and column tracking.

dfsbfsAlgorithmsApple
String Copy-Paste FeasibilityMedium
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Determine whether a target string contains equally repeated, ordered character blocks from a source string.

CodingAlgorithmsedge casesApple
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Pipelines8 questions · ~112 min
ETL Experience and TradeoffsHard
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Explain how you design, test, monitor, and recover reliable ETL pipelines for analytics at Apple.

Data Qualitydata pipelineETLApple
MapReduce vs Spark TradeoffsHard
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Compare MapReduce and Spark for large-scale Apple data processing, covering performance, fault tolerance, resource use, and workload fit.

distributed computingdata pipelinesBatch ProcessingApple
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Behavioral & Leadership12 questions · ~168 min
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More topics3 questions · ~42 min
Design a Clickstream Processing SystemHard

Design a scalable clickstream pipeline that ingests, processes, stores, and analyzes application log events in near real time.

distributed systemsdata ingestiondata streamsApple
Troubleshoot a Network IssueMedium
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Tests a layered, evidence-driven approach to diagnosing DNS, routing, transport, TLS, and application network failures on macOS.

networking basicscli commandstechnical fundamentalsApple
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