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Silicon Valley Bank Data Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Silicon Valley Bank Data Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated weekly.

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 3 questions + 2 drills · ~48 min
Top Customers by Region VolumeMedium
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Find the top 3 customers in each region by transaction volume using joins, aggregation, and window ranking.

Window FunctionsJoinsRankingSilicon Valley Bank
Star vs Snowflake for Sales AnalyticsMedium

Compare star and snowflake schemas for warehouse design, including trade-offs in normalization, query simplicity, and analytics performance.

JoinsData WranglingGroup BySilicon Valley Bank
Optimizing Large Transaction Table JoinsHard

Explain how to tune a slow PostgreSQL query that joins several large transaction tables using indexes, join strategy, and partitioning.

JoinsperformancesqlSilicon Valley Bank
Monthly Sales Trends by CategoryMedium
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Aggregate monthly sales by product category and use LAG to calculate month-over-month changes.

InfrastructureToolsData WranglingTotal Wine & MoreInc.Benjamin Moore
Contact Center Agent Performance MetricsHard
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Practice drill

Compute daily agent call KPIs and SLA using joins, aggregations, and window ranking in a contact center model.

ETLAggregationsData ModelingADP
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Pipelines6 questions · ~55 min
Handle Late Data in BatchMedium

Approach for handling late-arriving records in a batch ETL pipeline without breaking correctness or forcing full reloads.

Batch ProcessingIdempotencyDependenciesSilicon Valley Bank
Data Governance in PipelinesMedium

Describe a practical approach to data governance across shared data pipelines, including quality, ownership, lineage, and controlled data access.

InfrastructureQualitySilicon Valley Bank
Handling a Production Pipeline FailureEasy

Describe a real production pipeline failure, how you diagnosed and fixed it, and what changes you made around orchestration, quality, and reruns.

InfrastructureIdempotencyQualitySilicon Valley Bank
MDM for Reconciled ProfilesHard

Tests your ability to design master data management for identity resolution and reconciliation across systems.

ETLData ModelingQualitySilicon Valley Bank
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Experience With MDMMedium

Evaluates your experience with master data management and how you apply it to improve data consistency.

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