Software Data Engineer Interview Questions
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Design an ETL pipeline to process 10TB of data daily from multiple sources into a data warehouse with strict data quality checks.
Approach for building fault tolerance into a distributed data pipeline, including retries, idempotency, and recovery controls.
Approach for handling schema changes and data quality checks in a high-volume data lake pipeline.
Evaluates your security and compliance practices for sensitive, regulated data environments.
Tests whether you can translate technical constraints into business terms, manage stakeholder expectations, and drive alignment on tradeoffs.
Assesses your ability to choose the right processing model based on requirements.
Tests your skills in query optimization to improve performance and scalability for BI workloads.
Evaluates your system design skills for building a scalable public-sector data warehouse.
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Aggregate monthly sales by product category and use LAG to calculate month-over-month changes.
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