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HCA Healthcare Data Engineer Interview Questions

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 13 questions · ~129 min
Join Two Tables in SQLEasy
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Retrieve recent completed clinical events from Komodo Health analytics data using filtering and ordering.

JoinssqlHCA Healthcare
Classify Orders with CASE WHENEasy

Explain how CASE WHEN adds conditional logic to SQL queries for labeling, transforming, and aggregating data.

Data WranglingCase WhenAggregationsHCA Healthcare
Running Totals for Sales ReportingMedium

Explain how to calculate cumulative totals in SQL using window functions, ordering, and optional pre-aggregation.

Window FunctionsDate FunctionsRunning TotalsHCA Healthcare
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Pipelines30 questions · ~299 min
Handle Traffic Spikes in Data PipelinesMedium

Design a spike-resilient AWS data pipeline handling 750K events/sec while preserving low latency, data quality, and replay safety.

InfrastructureIdempotencyQualityHCA Healthcare
Batch vs Real-Time PipelinesMedium

Decide when an operational workflow should run in batch versus real time, based on latency, complexity, reliability, and data quality needs.

Stream ProcessingBatch ProcessingOrchestrationHCA Healthcare
Tune SQL in Data PipelinesMedium

A practical approach to tuning slow SQL queries and stored procedures used inside data pipelines.

sql tuningstored proceduresperformanceHCA Healthcare
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Coding6 questions · ~60 min
Ingest JSON or XML in PythonMedium
Practice

Parse JSON or XML payloads in Python and normalize their records into one consistent list of dictionaries.

Hash Tablesapi integrationapi requestsHCA Healthcare
Flatten Nested JSON in PythonMedium
Practice

Flatten nested JSON dictionaries and lists into dot-delimited key paths using recursive traversal.

RecursionHash TablesCodingHCA Healthcare
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