Leading technology company specializing in search, cloud, and AI.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Very Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time streaming data pipeline to detect click fraud in Google Ads. How would you ingest, process, and store the data to flag fraudulent clicks within seconds?
#Streaming
#Pub/Sub
#Dataflow
#Fraud Detection
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the data warehouse architecture for Google Play Store analytics. Stakeholders need daily reports on app downloads, revenue, and crash rates by region and device type.
#Data Warehousing
#BigQuery
#Schema Design
#ETL
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a batch processing pipeline to update Google Maps ETA prediction models based on daily historical traffic data. The data volume is petabytes per day.
#Batch Processing
#MapReduce
#DAGs
#Orchestration
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