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Via Transportation Data Engineer Interview Questions

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

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PipelinesStart here. 9 questions · ~73 min
Experience With dbtMedium

Assesses your ability to build and manage analytics transformations using dbt.

data engineeringVia Transportation
Schema Evolution in ETLMedium

Tests strategies for managing breaking changes while keeping pipelines reliable over time.

ETLschema evolutiondata integrityVia Transportation
Fault-Tolerant Data WarehouseHard

Tests architecture decisions for resilience, recovery, and consistent analytics under failure.

data warehousefault toleranceVia Transportation
Partitioning and Indexing StrategyHard

Tests ability to balance cost and latency through physical data layout and access patterns.

indexingVia Transportation
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SQL & Data Manipulation3 questions + 3 drills · ~54 min
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Big O and Hashmaps BasicsMedium

Evaluates understanding of algorithmic complexity and how it impacts data processing performance.

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