Senior Data Engineer Interview Questions

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Take-Home was answering questions using spark. Nothing too complex. An important element is writing test cases to show a complete example. The panel was more around getting a sense of your technical experience and how you would handle specific cases. There was a live coding session, but nothing was out of the ordinary.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Earnest Research

4.5
Dec 22, 2022

Take-Home was answering questions using spark. Nothing too complex. An important element is writing test cases to show a complete example. The panel was more around getting a sense of your technical experience and how you would handle specific cases. There was a live coding session, but nothing was out of the ordinary.

What's the biggest mistake you made in your previous work and what did you learn from it. How do you optimize long running queries? How would you integrate external API data to a data engineering pipeline? Explain the medallion architecture and how do you use it in your work.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at TechConnect

3.3
Mar 20, 2025

What's the biggest mistake you made in your previous work and what did you learn from it. How do you optimize long running queries? How would you integrate external API data to a data engineering pipeline? Explain the medallion architecture and how do you use it in your work.

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