Data Engineer Interview Preparation
Data engineering interview preparation with focus on data pipelines, ETL, and big data technologies.
Key Skills & Technologies
Data Pipelines
ETL/ELT
Big Data Technologies
Data Warehousing
Stream Processing
SQL
Interview Focus Areas
Data pipeline design and implementation
ETL/ELT processes and optimization
Big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop)
Data warehousing and modeling
Stream processing and real-time data
Data quality and monitoring
Top Hiring Companies
Top Data Engineer Coding Questions
Practice these 20 most relevant coding problems for data engineer interviews.
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#3594MediumFrequency: 100%
Identify the Largest Outlier in an Array
ArrayHash TableCountingEnumeration
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#3655MediumFrequency: 100%
Digit Operations to Make Two Integers Equal
GraphMathHeap (Priority Queue)Number TheoryShortest Path
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#1352HardFrequency: 100%
Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling
ArraySortingBinary SearchDynamic Programming
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#3613MediumFrequency: 100%
Maximize Amount After Two Days of Conversions
ArrayGraphStringDepth-First SearchBreadth-First Search
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#716HardFrequency: 100%
Max Stack
DesignLinked ListStackDoubly-Linked ListOrdered Set
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#1085MediumFrequency: 100%
The Earliest Moment When Everyone Become Friends
ArraySortingUnion Find
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#42HardFrequency: 100%
Trapping Rain Water
ArrayTwo PointersDynamic ProgrammingStackMonotonic Stack
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#3681MediumFrequency: 100%
Maximum Area Rectangle With Point Constraints I
ArraySortingMathBinary Indexed TreeSegment TreeGeometryEnumeration
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#1056MediumFrequency: 100%
Capacity To Ship Packages Within D Days
ArrayBinary Search
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#694MediumFrequency: 98%
Number of Distinct Islands
Hash TableDepth-First SearchBreadth-First SearchUnion FindHash Function
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#314MediumFrequency: 97%
Binary Tree Vertical Order Traversal
Hash TableSortingTreeDepth-First SearchBreadth-First SearchBinary Tree
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#2891MediumFrequency: 93%
Maximum Beauty of an Array After Applying Operation
ArraySortingBinary SearchSliding Window
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