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Electronic Arts (Ea) Data Engineer Interview Questions

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PipelinesStart here. 7 questions · ~62 min
Design High-Throughput Event PipelineHard

Design a real-time event pipeline that can handle millions of events per second with sub-second latency.

data pipelineevent processinglatencyElectronic Arts (Ea)
Explain ETL in Data EngineeringEasy

Explain the ETL process, why it matters, and how it fits into a practical data pipeline.

ETLOrchestrationQualityElectronic Arts (Ea)
Design an End-to-End Data PipelineMedium

Approach for designing an end-to-end data pipeline from ingestion through transformation, storage, and downstream consumption.

data pipelinedesigningestionElectronic Arts (Ea)
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SQL & Data Manipulation3 questions + 3 drills · ~56 min
SQL vs NoSQL for Go-to-Market DataEasy

Explain how SQL and NoSQL differ in schema, consistency, scaling, and Demandbase-style analytics use cases.

JoinsData WranglingElectronic Arts (Ea)
Handling Missing and Dirty SQL DataMedium

Explain how to profile, clean, and standardize missing or dirty data before analysis.

Data WranglingCase WhenQualityElectronic Arts (Ea)
Data Normalization EssentialsMedium

Tests understanding of normalization principles and their impact on data quality and analytics.

SubqueriesJoinsData WranglingElectronic Arts (Ea)
SQL Player Ranking by SpendMedium
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Rank EA players by total spend within each region and return the top three using aggregation and ROW_NUMBER().

Window FunctionsRankingGroup ByElectronic Arts (Ea)
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
Cleaning a Messy DatasetMedium
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Filter invalid game events and normalize event names using PostgreSQL string and null handling.

missing valuesdata cleaningnull handlingQuantiumScopelyCarvana
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Behavioral & Leadership11 questions · ~97 min
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More topics2 questions · ~18 min
Python Average Session DurationEasy
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Compute the average EA SPORTS FC session duration by scanning session records once.

Hash TablesArraysStringsElectronic Arts (Ea)
Efficient Game Metrics StorageMedium

Tests ability to design data structures for fast metric access in data engineering workloads.

Hash TablesArraysHeapElectronic Arts (Ea)

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