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WorldWide Technology Holding Data Engineer Interview Questions

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PipelinesStart here. 4 questions · ~37 min
Design Real-Time Feature PipelineHard

Design a real-time feature pipeline processing 120K events/sec into low-latency feature tables and warehouse models with replay and quality controls.

InfrastructureStream ProcessingOrchestrationWorldWide Technology Holding
ETL vs ELT Trade-offsEasy

Compare ETL and ELT, and explain when ELT is the better pipeline pattern.

ETLELTData ModelingWorldWide Technology Holding
Data Quality in ETL PipelinesEasy

Approach for maintaining data quality and integrity across ETL pipelines.

IdempotencyData ModelingQualityWorldWide Technology Holding
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SQL & Data Manipulation3 questions + 3 drills · ~58 min
Warehouse vs Data LakeMedium

Tests your foundational understanding of data storage architectures and tradeoffs.

data warehousedatabase conceptsWorldWide Technology Holding
Database Partitioning StrategiesMedium

Assesses your ability to choose partitioning approaches that balance performance and manageability.

performancedatabase designWorldWide Technology Holding
Optimize SQL for Large DatasetsHard

Tests your approach to diagnosing and improving slow SQL queries at scale.

large datasetsperformancequery optimizationWorldWide Technology Holding
SQL for Top Activity UsersHard
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Identify the most active 5% of WWT portal users using aggregation, a left join, and window functions.

sql queryData AnalysisWorldWide Technology HoldingEEvolentIInternshala
Claims Reporting Data ModelingHard
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Build a claims reporting query that balances normalized writes with monthly reporting performance.

database optimizationfinancial dataperformanceMetLife
Optimizing Poorly Performing SQLHard
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Optimize a PostgreSQL reporting query by reducing scanned rows, preserving unmatched records, and selecting the latest related review efficiently.

database optimizationlarge datasetsperformancePPriority Technology Holdings, LLCZillowOne
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Behavioral & Leadership6 questions · ~55 min
Leading an Ambiguous Data ProjectMedium

Tests ownership and stakeholder management in leading a data project from vague problem definition through delivery and measurable impact.

impactLeadershipOwnershipWorldWide Technology Holding
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More topics1 question · ~9 min
Palindrome Code ChallengeMedium
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Filter words that read identically forward and backward after case and punctuation normalization.

Arraysstring manipulationArray ManipulationWorldWide Technology Holding

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