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Sun Life Financial Data Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Sun Life Financial Data Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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PipelinesStart here. 7 questions · ~57 min
Design Cloud ETL Migration PipelineEasy

Design a cloud-native batch ETL platform on AWS or Azure for 2.5 TB/day of mixed-source data with orchestration, quality checks, and incremental loads.

InfrastructureToolsQualitySun Life Financial
Batch vs Real-Time PipelinesMedium

Decide when an operational workflow should run in batch versus real time, based on latency, complexity, reliability, and data quality needs.

Stream ProcessingBatch ProcessingOrchestrationSun Life Financial
Cloud Pipeline Data SecurityMedium

Key security considerations for a cloud data pipeline, from ingestion through storage, orchestration, and monitoring.

InfrastructureGovernanceETLSun Life Financial
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SQL & Data Manipulation5 questions + 3 drills · ~70 min
Clustered vs Non-Clustered IndexesMedium

Explain how clustered and non-clustered indexes differ in storage, lookup behavior, and query performance.

JoinsData WranglingSun Life Financial
Data Manipulation ExperienceMedium

Assesses your hands-on ability to transform and manipulate data for analytics and reporting use cases.

experienceData ManipulationSun Life Financial
DBMS and Data ManipulationMedium
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Model related policy and claim data, then summarize approved claims while preserving policyholders without claims.

Joinssqldatabase designSun Life Financial
SQL Query for Third LargestMedium
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Use a CTE, join, and RANK window function to find employees earning the third-highest distinct salary.

aggregationsqlSun Life FinancialAApteanSun Life
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
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Behavioral & Leadership12 questions · ~97 min
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More topics3 questions · ~24 min
Modular and Testable PythonEasy

Tests software engineering discipline for long-lived data engineering codebases.

code qualitymaintainabilityTestingSun Life Financial
Fix Python Script Input BugsMedium

Tests your ability to debug Python logic and harden pipelines against bad inputs.

Data WranglingDebuggingpythonSun Life Financial
Production Python Pipeline ConfigMedium

Tests production engineering practices for maintainability, configurability, and reliability.

configuration filesdependency injectionproductionSun Life Financial
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