PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional services network.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
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Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design an ETL pipeline for a retail client that ingests 50GB of daily transaction data, cleanses it, and makes it available for BI reporting within 1 hour of store closing.
#Architecture
#Batch Processing
#Cloud Storage
#Data Warehousing
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a data lakehouse architecture using Databricks for a financial services firm that needs both nightly batch reporting and near-real-time fraud detection.
#Lakehouse
#Databricks
#Lambda Architecture
#Streaming
Data Engineer
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System Design
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medium
How would you design a data quality framework to validate incoming data before it lands in the gold layer of a Medallion architecture?
#Data Quality
#Medallion Architecture
#Data Governance
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time streaming pipeline using Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming to process IoT sensor data and detect anomalies.
#Streaming
#Kafka
#Spark Structured Streaming
#Architecture
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