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Company Research and Knowledge Questions

Demonstrates that a candidate has researched the specific employer and can discuss its mission, products or services, business model, market position, competitive landscape, recent announcements, and any relevant technical or regulatory considerations. Interviewers look for concrete references such as product features, strategic initiatives, engineering signals, or public communications and expect candidates to tie that research to how they would add value in the target role. Preparation includes building informed questions, understanding target customers and metrics of success, and knowing role specific context such as likely projects, typical deliverables, or relevant parts of the technology stack.

HardTechnical
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Estimate the annual storage and compute cost of retaining raw event logs at current granularity for three years using your public volume estimates. Propose a tiered storage and retention policy that balances compliance, analytical needs, and cost. Describe migration steps to implement the policy with minimal query disruption.
HardTechnical
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During onboarding you discover that two core datasets (analytics and billing) produce inconsistent values for the same transactions. Create a cross-team remediation plan that covers root-cause investigation, temporary mitigation to stop incorrect reports, a permanent fix, stakeholder communication, and controls to prevent recurrence.
EasyTechnical
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Identify one direct competitor and one adjacent competitor for the company. Compare two product or data differences between the company and each competitor, and discuss how these differences would change data collection, instrumentation, or processing needs for the company's data engineering team.
HardTechnical
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Design a one-year data engineering roadmap for the company that aligns with the business objectives you researched. Include 6–8 prioritized initiatives, estimated effort, success metrics for each initiative, required hires or role changes, and how you would report progress to product and executive stakeholders.
MediumSystem Design
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The company is evaluating a migration from an on-prem Hadoop cluster to a cloud data warehouse based on signals you found (job posts, blog posts). Outline a phased migration plan that includes discovery, pilot, cutover, data validation, and cost controls. Highlight top risks and mitigations specific to the company's product workloads.

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