Sigmoid Data Engineer Interview Questions

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Optimize Skewed Spark Join

Medium

Optimize a Spark join where skewed keys create long-running tasks during a transaction to merchant metadata enrichment step.

Joinsperformancespark

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Design AWS Clickstream Streaming Pipeline

Hard

Design an AWS-native real-time clickstream pipeline processing 1M events/sec with under 2-minute latency, replay support, and strong data quality controls.

InfrastructureStream ProcessingOrchestration

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Detect Linked List Cycle

Medium

Tests ability to implement an efficient cycle detection algorithm and reason about pointers and edge cases.

Linked Listscycle detectionTwo Pointers

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Object-Oriented Guess the Number

Easy

Tests coding clarity, OOP fundamentals, and correct program structure for a small interactive problem.

Basic Algorithmsfunctionsoop

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Partition Pruning in Practice

Medium

Tests ability to reason about partitioned storage and performance impacts in analytical queries.

Performance Tuningsqlpartitioning

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SQL Join Types and Optimization

Medium

Tests understanding of SQL join semantics and query execution considerations for performance.

Joinsperformancejoin types

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