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MetLife Data Engineer Interview Questions

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PipelinesStart here. 11 questions · ~106 min
Privacy Compliance in Data PipelinesMedium

Approach for building privacy controls, lineage, and auditability into data pipelines that handle personal data.

Compliancedata privacyPipelinesMetLife
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 pipelinedesigningestionMetLife
Batch vs Stream Processing Trade-offsMedium

Compare batch and stream processing across latency, complexity, cost, and data quality in a modern analytics pipeline.

InfrastructureStream ProcessingETLMetLife
Data Quality and Schema EvolutionMedium

Approach for handling schema changes and data quality checks in a high-volume data lake pipeline.

schema evolutionData ModelingQualityMetLife
Data Quality in ETL PipelinesEasy

Approach for maintaining data quality and integrity across ETL pipelines.

IdempotencyData ModelingQualityMetLife
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Behavioral & Leadership5 questions · ~48 min
Owning an Ambiguous Data RequestEasy

Tests ownership and prioritization in an ambiguous data engineering situation with changing requirements and multiple stakeholders.

englishsoft skillsCommunicationMetLife
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More topics2 questions · ~19 min
Claims Reporting Data ModelingHard
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Build a claims reporting query that balances normalized writes with monthly reporting performance.

database optimizationfinancial dataperformanceMetLife
Optimizing PySpark Data SkewHard
Practice

Assign deterministic salted partitions to distribute hot keys and reduce PySpark data skew.

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