Additional Interview Material

📄️ Basic Technical Questions

Interviewers use easy technical questions designed to weed out candidates without the right experience. This question assesses your experience level, comfort with specific tools, and the depth of your domain expertise. Basic technical questions include:

📄️ Behavioral Interview Questions

Behavioral questions assess soft skills (e.g., communication, leadership, adaptability), your skill level, and how you fit into the company’s data engineering team.

📄️ Data Warehousing Architecture

What is the Main Difference between View and Materialized View?

📄️ Database Management Interview Questions

What is a relational database?

📄️ Interview Process

Whether you’re just getting into the data engineer job market or your interview is tomorrow, practice is an essential part of the interview preparation process for a data engineer.

📄️ Other Questions

How Would You Approach Developing a New Analytical Product as a Data Engineer?

📄️ Random Items

The following is a brief list of the resources that I think can be most helpful for preparing for the technical round of data engineering interviews. I intend for this to be a living document that I will continue to grow and update over time, adding new resources that I come across as well as those suggested to me by others in the field. I think preparation can be broadly broken up into these categories:

📄️ SQL

SQL is a must-have skill for data engineers. They use the querying language to perform essential tasks like modeling data, extracting performance metrics, and developing reusable data structures.