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Vanguard Data Engineer Interview Questions

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

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 10 questions · ~96 min
Top Products and Repeat PurchasesHard
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Use PostgreSQL CTEs, joins, aggregation, and window functions to rank recent products and find seven-day repeat buyers.

sql queriesAggregationsVanguard
Top Customers by Sales RevenueEasy
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Use GROUP BY and SUM to rank the top 10 customers by total revenue from a single sales table.

RankingGroup ByAggregationsVanguard
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Pipelines22 questions · ~211 min
Diagnose Pipeline Performance DropMedium

Diagnose a sudden pipeline slowdown by tracing latency, throughput, data quality, and orchestration signals across the stack.

InfrastructureDependenciesQualityVanguard
Warehouse Analytics ExperienceEasy

Discuss practical experience using a data warehouse for analytics, including loading, transformation, orchestration, and data quality.

InfrastructureData ModelingVanguard
Design an ETL Pipeline for Large DatasetsMedium

Design an ETL pipeline to process 10TB of data daily from multiple sources into a data warehouse with strict data quality checks.

InfrastructureETLData ModelingVanguard
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Behavioral & Leadership7 questions · ~67 min
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More topics3 questions · ~29 min
AWS Lambda BasicsEasy

Tests understanding of AWS Lambda as managed, event-driven compute, including handlers, execution environments, and automatic scaling.

asynchronous worktechnical fundamentalstechnical knowledgeVanguard
API to Database with PythonMedium
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Process paginated API responses, retain the latest record for each ID, and return records ready for persistence.

Hash Tablesdeduplicationapi integrationVanguard
Efficient Large Dataset ProcessingMedium

Tests performance thinking, scalability, and practical implementation details for large data.

Hash TablesArraysSortingVanguard
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