Photon Data Engineer Interview Questions
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Create a practical migration plan covering discovery, data transfer, validation, cutover, rollback, and post-migration monitoring.
PhotonApproach for handling schema changes and data quality checks in a high-volume data lake pipeline.
PhotonAssesses ETL design, Snowflake loading patterns, and data transformation approach.
PhotonTests conflict resolution, technical judgment, respectful communication, and ownership during a design disagreement.
PhotonTests accountability, self-awareness, and whether career decisions align with the role.
PhotonEvaluates practical GenAI usage and its application to data engineering tasks and artifacts.
PhotonDesign high availability and fault tolerance for a distributed service, including failure detection, recovery, capacity, and operational safeguards.
PhotonEvaluates SQL proficiency and the ability to reason about joins, window functions, and string functions.
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Rewrite a slow PostgreSQL loan payment query to reduce scanned rows while preserving the required aggregated results.
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EnergyHubClassify configuration keys as shared, settings-only, or metadata-only using a PostgreSQL full outer join.
PhotonCompute daily active users and a 7-day rolling average using a CTE, distinct counts, and window functions.
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