Airbnb
Online marketplace for lodging with strong data science and infrastructure.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time data pipeline to ingest availability and pricing updates from hosts and serve them to the search ranking model. The system must handle high throughput during peak seasons and ensure sub-second latency so users don't book unavailable listings.
#Kafka
#Stream Processing
#Event-Driven Architecture
#Data Consistency
Data Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a batch pipeline to compute the 'Superhost' status for all hosts on the platform every quarter. What technologies would you use, how would you orchestrate it, and how would you ensure data quality before publishing the results to the production database?
#Batch Processing
#Data Quality
#ETL
#Architecture
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