Sr Data Engineer Interview Questions

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A few generic questions around Data Warehousing/ETL approach, scenario based questions. One interviewer was asking questions from Interview Q&A website, was not happy if answers and terms didn't match exactly. You don't ask syntactical questions to experienced staff who can lookup manual in a minute and figure things out.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Acrisure

2.9
Nov 2, 2022

A few generic questions around Data Warehousing/ETL approach, scenario based questions. One interviewer was asking questions from Interview Q&A website, was not happy if answers and terms didn't match exactly. You don't ask syntactical questions to experienced staff who can lookup manual in a minute and figure things out.

Write a SQL and PySpark code to display the 2nd lowest salary employees for each department having more than 10 employees, along with their employee name and department name. Two tables Employee and Department is giving? What to use Row_Number, Rank or Dense Rank?
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Senior AWS Data Engineer

Interviewed at Blend360

4.1
Jun 5, 2025

Write a SQL and PySpark code to display the 2nd lowest salary employees for each department having more than 10 employees, along with their employee name and department name. Two tables Employee and Department is giving? What to use Row_Number, Rank or Dense Rank?

1st round - Medium difficulty questions were sent over the email and had to reply on email within one hour. Cleared. 2nd round - Asked about my work experience and explain a bit about the role being offered. Most of the questions were related to Data modelling and designing a data model for a hypothetical scenario.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Aimpoint Digital

4.9
Feb 8, 2023

1st round - Medium difficulty questions were sent over the email and had to reply on email within one hour. Cleared. 2nd round - Asked about my work experience and explain a bit about the role being offered. Most of the questions were related to Data modelling and designing a data model for a hypothetical scenario.

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