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EXL Service Data Engineer Interview Questions

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 12 questions · ~141 min
4th highest salary per departmentMedium
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Return each department's fourth-highest distinct salary, handling ties and excluding departments without four salary levels.

null handlingdatabase queryingAggregationsEXL Service
Pivot transformation of tablesMedium
Practice

Convert monthly service-volume rows into one row per service line and account with separate January, February, and March columns.

data preparationData ManipulationAggregationsEXL Service
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Coding11 questions · ~129 min
ROW_NUMBER vs RANK vs DENSE_RANKMedium
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Implement ROW_NUMBER, RANK, and DENSE_RANK behavior for a list of scores sorted in descending order.

CodingArraysAlgorithmsEXL Service
Merge continuous date rowsMedium
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Sort date intervals by ID and start date, then merge adjacent inclusive date ranges.

aggregationArraysAlgorithmsEXL Service
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System Design11 questions · ~129 min
Slow-moving audit pipeline designHard

Design an auditable customer history pipeline that preserves every address and city change without overwriting prior records.

data securitydatabase accessdata ingestionEXL Service
On-prem to cloud data pipelineHard

Design a reliable pipeline from on-premises files through Azure and Snowflake into dbt transformations.

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Pipelines12 questions · ~141 min
Ingest Data From S3 PipelineHard
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Design an S3-to-target-system ingestion pipeline with idempotent loads, failure recovery, validation, and consistent reruns.

data loadingdata pipelinepipeline designEXL Service
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Behavioral & Leadership3 questions · ~35 min
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More topics1 question · ~12 min
Sensitive data in DBT modelsHard

Secure PII in dbt models through classification, masking, least privilege, controlled access, and verifiable monitoring.

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