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Telus Digital Data Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Telus Digital Data Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 3 questions · ~26 min
Python Deduplication FunctionMedium
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Remove duplicate dictionary records in O(n) time while preserving the first occurrence of each record.

Hash TablesdeduplicationArraysTelus Digital
MDM Record Matching AlgorithmHard

Tests ability to design record matching approaches for MDM, including similarity and decision logic.

Hash TablesSortingGreedyTelus Digital
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Pipelines14 questions · ~122 min
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 processingperformanceTelus Digital
Diagnose an Integration Pipeline IssueMedium

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

ToolsDependenciesQualityTelus Digital
Choosing Batch vs Real TimeHard

Evaluate when a pipeline should use stream processing versus scheduled batch based on latency, cost, complexity, and data quality needs.

Stream ProcessingBatch ProcessingDependenciesTelus Digital
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Behavioral & Leadership10 questions · ~87 min
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More topics3 questions · ~26 min
SQL Joins and ExamplesEasy

Tests understanding of SQL joins and ability to apply them to relational data modeling.

SubqueriesJoinsData WranglingTelus Digital
Architecture of a Data ProjectMedium

Tests ability to communicate end-to-end data architecture decisions and tradeoffs.

Stakeholder ManagementCommunicationOwnershipTelus Digital
SQL Transformations with JobsMedium

Tests practical SQL transformation skills for building reliable data processing jobs.

JoinsCTEsAggregationsTelus Digital
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