Plaid Data Engineer Interview Questions
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Design a Databricks Lakehouse pipeline and justify when to use Spark RDDs, DataFrames, or Datasets for scalable ETL and streaming.
PlaidApproach for handling late-arriving records in a batch ETL pipeline without breaking correctness or forcing full reloads.
PlaidDesign a monitoring and alerting approach for a mission critical pipeline, covering system health, data quality, and operational response.
PlaidCompare star and snowflake schemas for warehouse design, including trade-offs in normalization, query simplicity, and analytics performance.
PlaidCompare join and window-function strategies for producing ranked account totals efficiently in PostgreSQL.
PlaidCalculate daily event counts and trailing 1-day, 7-day, and 28-day totals across the complete calendar history.
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Tests conflict resolution and influence in a data engineering context, especially around pipeline trade-offs, ownership, and decision quality.
PlaidDesign a secure, cost-efficient Plaid data platform that grows from 100TB to multiple petabytes of unstructured data.
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