IBM
Global technology and consulting firm with deep roots in enterprise IT and AI.
3 Rounds
~14 Days
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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 batch pipeline to ingest 10TB of daily log data into a data lake on IBM Cloud.
#Batch Processing
#Data Lake
#IBM Cloud Object Storage
#Spark
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time streaming pipeline for credit card transaction fraud detection.
#Streaming
#Kafka
#Spark Streaming / Flink
#Low Latency
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
How would you migrate an on-premise DB2 database to a cloud data warehouse with minimal downtime?
#Cloud Migration
#CDC
#DB2
Data Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design an idempotent data pipeline. Why is idempotency important?
#Idempotency
#Data Pipelines
#Fault Tolerance
Data Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a data model for a retail e-commerce platform.
#Data Modeling
#Fact Tables
#Dimension Tables
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a metric aggregation system that handles late-arriving events in a streaming architecture.
#Streaming
#Watermarking
#Event Time vs Processing Time
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