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T-Mobile Data Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a T-Mobile Data Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 4 questions · ~38 min
Merge Two Sorted Linked ListsEasy
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Merge two sorted singly linked lists into one sorted list by relinking existing nodes.

RecursionLinked ListsSortingT-Mobile
Python List vs Tuple UsageEasy

Compare Python lists and tuples, including mutability, performance, and when each should be used.

tupleslistsData StructuresT-Mobile
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SQL & Data Manipulation4 questions + 2 drills · ~58 min
SQL Duplicate DetectionEasy
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Find duplicate customer profiles by grouping on identifying fields and returning only repeated records.

Group ByHavingAggregationsT-Mobile
OLTP vs OLAP Database DesignMedium

Explain OLTP vs OLAP designs, including schema shape, workload patterns, and when each is appropriate in a data platform.

financial dataperformanceData ModelingT-Mobile
Handling Missing and Dirty SQL DataMedium

Explain how to profile, clean, and standardize missing or dirty data before analysis.

Data WranglingCase WhenQualityT-Mobile
SQL for Financial Data ValidationMedium
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Compare posted T-Mobile transaction totals with monthly assumptions and report variances by account type.

financial dataGroup ByCase WhenT-Mobile
SQL for Store Performance InsightsHard
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Aggregate weekly T-Mobile store metrics and rank stores by revenue, inventory shrink, and labor efficiency.

Joinsperformancecomplex queriesT-Mobile
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Pipelines10 questions · ~95 min
Preferred ETL and Transformation ToolsEasy

Explain your preferred extraction and transformation stack, and the reasoning behind those tool choices.

ToolsETLELTT-Mobile
Optimize Multi-Terabyte ETL PipelineMedium

Explain how you improved a slow ETL pipeline on multi-terabyte data, including bottleneck analysis, tuning choices, and validation.

ETL optimizationdata processingperformanceT-Mobile
Diagnose an Integration Pipeline IssueMedium

Structured approach to diagnose failures in an ETL integration, from source extraction through orchestration, data quality, and idempotent recovery.

ToolsDependenciesQualityT-Mobile
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Behavioral & Leadership5 questions · ~48 min
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