Snowflake
Cloud data platform enabling data warehousing, data lakes, and data sharing.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
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 near real-time data ingestion pipeline using Snowpipe and AWS S3 to handle 10TB of daily log data. How do you handle deduplication, schema evolution, and error notifications?
#Snowpipe
#AWS S3
#Data Ingestion
#Deduplication
#Schema Evolution
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a Change Data Capture (CDC) system from an operational PostgreSQL database into Snowflake. Ensure exactly-once processing and minimal impact on the source database.
#CDC
#Debezium
#Kafka
#Snowflake Streams
#Snowflake Tasks
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a data lineage tracking system that parses incoming SQL queries to build a dependency graph of tables and views. How would you store and query this graph?
#Data Lineage
#Graph Databases
#Metadata Management
#Query Parsing
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