Data Engineer · Junior · System design

Design a simple pipeline that moves orders from the production database to an analytics warehouse every day.

~10 min by voice

How to approach it

This checks whether the candidate can put together a reliable daily ETL/ELT: not just 'a script on cron', but incremental extraction, an idempotent rerun, quality checks and monitoring. The main thing is understanding that the pipeline will fail and be rerun, and the data must not get corrupted by that.

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data pipelines incremental load

Answer by voice

The interviewer will ask this question and listen. Think out loud and ask for a hint if you need one. When you're done, pause or tap “That's my answer”. In about a minute, your score and the points you covered show up here.

Best with headphones · ~10 min