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ByteDance Data Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a ByteDance Data Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 10 questions · ~126 min
Single Element in Sorted PairsMedium
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Use parity-aware binary search to find the only unpaired integer in a sorted paired array.

binary searchArraysAlgorithmsByteDance
Course Scheduling with PrerequisitesMedium
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Determine whether all courses can be completed by detecting cycles in a prerequisite graph.

bfscycle detectionAlgorithmsByteDance
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SQL & Data Manipulation11 questions · ~139 min
Bids by Available LotsEasy
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Use a left join and aggregation to count bids for every available lot, including lots with zero bids.

JoinsGroup BysqlByteDance
Window Function SQL QueryMedium
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Rank each user's completed transactions by amount using a PostgreSQL window function.

Window Functionsnull handlingJoinsByteDance
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System Design3 questions · ~38 min
Data Skew Mitigation with SaltingHard

Apply salting in Spark to distribute hot product keys across partitions and preserve correct join results.

distributed systemsdata ingestioncomputational costByteDance
Livestream Data Ingestion PipelineHard

Design livestream ingestion tables and SQL queries for the stated functional requirements.

database accessdata ingestiondata streamsByteDance
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Pipelines14 questions · ~176 min
AI for Data GovernanceHard
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Design an AI-assisted pipeline for metadata discovery, lineage, PII classification, quality monitoring, and governed remediation at ByteDance.

Data QualityAIGovernanceByteDance
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Behavioral & Leadership11 questions · ~139 min
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More topics1 question · ~13 min
Troubleshoot Pod Server OutageMedium
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Tests your incident response process and ability to isolate and fix production issues.

Problem SolvingTroubleshootingByteDance
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