Spotify
Music streaming platform using ML for personalization and recommendation.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the end-to-end data pipeline for Spotify Wrapped. How do you process a year's worth of data for hundreds of millions of users?
#Batch Processing
#GCP
#Dataflow
#BigQuery
#Scalability
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time dashboard pipeline showing the top trending songs globally right now.
#Streaming
#Kafka
#Pub/Sub
#Apache Flink
#Redis
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
How would you migrate a massive legacy on-prem Hadoop pipeline to GCP Dataflow and BigQuery with zero downtime?
#Cloud Migration
#GCP
#Architecture
Data Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design an A/B testing data pipeline to evaluate a new home screen recommendation algorithm.
#A/B Testing
#Data Pipelines
#Analytics
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a system to ingest, validate, and process 10 billion daily stream events from mobile clients.
#Ingestion
#Kafka
#Data Quality
#Microservices
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a pipeline to calculate royalty payments to artists at the end of the month based on complex, varying contract rules.
#Batch Processing
#Financial Data
#Idempotency
#Airflow
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Architect a system to detect fraudulent streams (e.g., bot farms looping a 31-second track) in near real-time.
#Fraud Detection
#Streaming
#Graph Processing
#Machine Learning
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