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UC San Francisco Data Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a UC San Francisco Data Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated weekly.

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PipelinesStart here. 15 questions · ~121 min
Preferred ETL and Transformation ToolsEasy

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

ToolsETLELTUC San Francisco
Explain ETL in Data EngineeringEasy

Explain the ETL process, why it matters, and how it fits into a practical data pipeline.

ETLOrchestrationQualityUC San Francisco
Data Quality in ETL PipelinesEasy

Approach for maintaining data quality and integrity across ETL pipelines.

IdempotencyData ModelingQualityUC San Francisco
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Coding4 questions · ~32 min
Time Complexity for Data ManipulationMedium

Tests algorithmic thinking and ability to reason about performance for data transformations.

Hash TablesArraysSortingUC San Francisco
Cleaning and Normalizing DataEasy

Tests practical coding ability for data preparation tasks used in production pipelines.

ArraysStringsSortingUC San Francisco
Caching Mechanism ImplementationHard

Tests design of caching strategies to improve throughput and reduce repeated computation.

Hash TablesQueueHeapUC San Francisco
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SQL & Data Manipulation4 questions + 3 drills · ~62 min
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More topics1 question · ~8 min
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