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Google Data Engineer Interview Questions

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 14 questions · ~176 min
Top Toys Asked Under 9Medium
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Find the toys most requested by children under 9, sorted alphabetically.

JoinsGroup Bydatabase queryingGoogle
Top 3 Asked Toys Per AgeMedium
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Return the top 3 most asked toys for each child age using joins and ranking.

JoinsGoogle
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Coding14 questions · ~176 min
Unique User Activity MetricsMedium
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Aggregate records by activity type and compute unique-user counts plus average website time per user.

aggregationArraysGoogle
Efficient Logic Coding ChallengeMedium
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Recently asked

Find the shortest contiguous Google Cloud Dataflow event range containing every required label using a sliding window.

pythonGoogle
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System Design4 questions · ~50 min
Real-Time Stock Ingestion PipelineHard

Design a fault-tolerant pipeline to ingest, validate, and serve real-time stock market data under tight latency and throughput constraints.

latencydistributed systemsdata ingestionGoogle
Late Data and IdempotencyMedium
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Tests handling of late data, mutations, and deduplication in streams.

streamingdata pipelineIdempotencyGoogle
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Pipelines14 questions · ~176 min
Visualizing Late and Out-of-Order StreamsHard
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Approach for visualizing streaming data when events arrive late, out of order, or with uneven latency.

Stream ProcessingData WranglingIdempotencyGoogle
Handle Traffic Spikes in Data PipelinesMedium
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Design a spike-resilient AWS data pipeline handling 750K events/sec while preserving low latency, data quality, and replay safety.

InfrastructureIdempotencyQualityGoogle
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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~50 min
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