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1

Have you worked on Data Warehousing projects?

General/Otherhardbigqueryetloptimization0.7 min read
AareteDunnhumby
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2

How would you read data from a web API? What steps would you follow after reading the data?

General/Othermediumetlpartition0.7 min read
AltimetrikInfosys
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3

Retrieve the most recent sale_timestamp for each product (Latest Transaction).

General/Otherhardbigquerypartitionsnowflake0.6 min read
PresidioSwiggy
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4

What is the difference between OLTP and OLAP?

General/Otherhardbigqueryetljoin0.7 min read
AareteDunnhumbyFragma Data Systems
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5

What is the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases?

General/Othermediumjoinsql0.7 min read
AareteDunnhumbyFragma Data Systems
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6

Calculate the total number of transactions (units sold) for each product.

General/Othermediumjoinsparksql2 min read
Wayfair
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7

Data Storage and Retrieval Optimization techniques

General/Otherhardoptimizationpartition2 min read
Lumiq
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8

Data access strategy for clients

General/Othereasy2 min read
media.net
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9

Deadlock: Definition and necessary conditions

General/Othereasy2 min read
ZS Associates
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10

Describe a project where you implemented a data quality framework.

General/Othereasyairflow1 min read
media.net
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11

Describe the ZS projects you worked on

General/Otherhardetljoinoptimization0.5 min read
Meesho
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12

Describe the concept of data sharding and when to use it.

General/Othermediumjoinpartition0.6 min read
Goldman Sachs
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13

Fetch the rows with the highest scores for each student in a year.

General/Othermediumjoinpartitionsql0.3 min read
Deolite
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14

Find orders exceeding $1,000 in the last 30 days.

General/Otherhardsqlwindow2 min read
Comcast
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15

Find the names of managers who have at least 7 employees directly reporting to them.

General/Othermediumjoinsql1 min read
Deolite
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16

Given the data with id, name, and department, how would you calculate how many employees are in each department?

General/Othermediumsparksqlwindow2 min read
Infosys
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17

Highlight the tools and technologies you've used in your current project

General/Otherhardairflowsnowflakespark2 min read
Nihilent
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18

How do you run one notebook in another notebook?

General/Othereasypython2 min read
Hexaware
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19

How do you secure API requests in this setup?

General/Othereasy3 min read
EPAM
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20

How would you implement custom alarms for data delays or job failures?

General/Othermediumairflowpartition0.6 min read
Capco
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