Block Data Engineer Interview Questions

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Choose Kafka vs Flink

Easy

Design a streaming pipeline and justify when Kafka, Flink, or both should be used for ingestion, stateful processing, replay, and low-latency delivery.

Stream ProcessingOrchestrationDependencies

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Data Quality and Schema Evolution

Medium

Approach for handling schema changes and data quality checks in a high-volume data lake pipeline.

schema evolutionData ModelingQuality

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Peer-to-Peer Payment Data Model on Cash App

Hard

Tests data modeling for transaction state tracking over time in a Cash App feature.

JoinsData WranglingRunning Totals

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Bottleneck Diagnosis and Query Optimization

Hard

Tests performance debugging and physical design techniques for SQL workloads.

JoinsData WranglingAggregations

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Resilient Financial Data Handling

Medium

Tests defensive coding practices for data quality issues in financial pipelines.

Hash TablesArraysStrings

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Clean Code for Large Dataset Manipulation

Medium

Tests code quality and efficiency for large-scale data transformations.

Hash TablesArraysStrings

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