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Real questions from top companies in System Design/Architecture Β· hard

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How would you fetch data from an external API, and what AWS services would you use to build a scalable data pipeline?

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EPAM
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142

How would you fix a client's failing reporting pipeline suffering from performance bottlenecks?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
BCG
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143

How would you handle late-arriving data in a real-time stream processing pipeline?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
Swiggy
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144

How would you handle schema changes in a production ETL pipeline?

System Design/Architecturehardetljoinpartition2.4 min read
Swiggy
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145

How would you handle schema evolution in a real-time data system?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
Fragma Data Systems
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146

How would you implement a near real-time data pipeline for analyzing user behavior on the Adidas mobile app?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
Adidas
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147

How would you implement data governance and security in your design?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
McKinsey
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148

How would you manage a disagreement within your team about an ETL pipeline design?

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Morgan Stanley
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149

How would you manage schema evolution in your data lake?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
Microsoft
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150

How would you process Excel files with multiple sheets? Design the data pipeline.

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
Cognizant
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151

How would you schedule a recurring pipeline in Data Fusion?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
Aarete
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152

How would you set up an alert system to monitor your ETL pipeline for failures or performance issues?

System Design/Architecturehardairflowetljoin2.4 min read
Meesho
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153

How would you set up end-to-end tracing for a complex pipeline?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
Capco
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154

How would you use monitoring tools to detect and resolve pipeline failures proactively?

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
Swiggy
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155

Identify potential bottlenecks in your pipeline design and propose solutions to mitigate them.

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.4 min read
Puma
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156

Introduce your recent project, explaining its goal, architecture, tools, and technologies.

System Design/Architecturehardjoinpartitionspark2.3 min read
Citi
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