Canonical Data Engineer Interview Questions
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Explain how structured and unstructured data differ, and why that matters for pipeline design and downstream processing.
CanonicalStructured approach to diagnose failures in an ETL integration, from source extraction through orchestration, data quality, and idempotent recovery.
CanonicalDesign a streaming pipeline that keeps dashboard data fresh and accurate for operational reporting.
CanonicalCompare common sorting algorithms by best, average, and worst-case time complexity and explain when each is appropriate.
CanonicalTests ability to implement windowed calculations correctly and efficiently.
CanonicalTests ability to design and implement deduplication logic in Python.
CanonicalAggregate completed SMX product sales and return the top 10 products by units sold.
CanonicalTests SQL performance troubleshooting using explain plans, indexing, and query rewrites.
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Calculate daily campaign conversion rates with conditional aggregation, a CTE, and a campaign dimension join.
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OutschoolAggregate monthly sales by product category and use LAG to calculate month-over-month changes.
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