Data Engineer Coding & Algorithms Interview Questions
Practice 53 real Coding & Algorithms interview questions for Data Engineer roles. From companies including Meta, Bytedance, Point72, Stripe, Amazon.

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Implement Game Metadata Lookups
You are given a list of game metadata records. Build an in-memory representation that can store each game's name, release date, platforms, genre, publ...
Write SQL using joins and window functions
SQL Coding: Rank within Groups with Joins You are given two tables: accounts - account_id (string) - customer_id (string) - segment (string) — e.g., "...
Write SQL for first share and closest collaborator
You are given event data about users viewing design files. Assume the following tables: - files(file_id, creator_id) - creator_id is a VARCHAR user ...
Connect Points With Minimum Total Distance
You are given an array points, where points[i] = [xi, yi] represents a point on a 2D plane. The cost to connect two points i and j is their Manhattan ...
Build a Least-Recently-Used Store
Implement an in-memory key-value store with least-recently-used eviction. The store is initialized with a positive integer capacity and supports two o...
Validate an IPv4 address string
Given a string s, determine whether it is a valid IPv4 address. A valid IPv4 address: - Has exactly 4 parts separated by dots (.): x1.x2.x3.x4 - Each ...
Solve SQL and PySpark Data Tasks
Complete the following two data engineering coding tasks. Part A: Detect repeated crypto-transfer patterns in PostgreSQL You are given a PostgreSQL ta...
Write SQL revenue and anomaly queries
You are given two tables. Table: transactions | Column | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | transaction_id | int | Unique identifier for each transa...
Write SQL for app metrics
You are given a simplified schema for a photo-sharing app: - users(user_id, user_name, joined_at) - photos(photo_id, user_id, created_at) - follows(fo...
Compute Minimum Production Days
Question You are given a list of product IDs products, where products[i] is the type of the product that must be produced at step i, and a non-negativ...
Solve two string problems
You are asked to solve the following two coding problems. 1. Count unique Morse code translations You are given an array of lowercase English w...
Write SQL Data Transformation Queries
Use SQL to solve the following data transformation tasks. Assume standard SQL features are available, including window functions and recursive common ...
Compute Graph Spread and Portfolio Trades
Answer both implementation tasks. Task 1: Maximum connected-component label difference Implement maximumDifference(int gNodes, List<Integer> gFrom, Li...
Encode and Rebuild a Binary Tree
Design two functions for a binary tree: - encode(root) -> string - decode(data) -> root Each tree node contains an integer value and has up to two chi...
Write queries for follows and bookings
You are given tables/logs from a consumer app. Solve the following independent tasks. Part A — Active following as of a date (SQL) You have a follow e...
Write SQL for basic user metrics
You are given a simplified schema for a fictional social app called Nextagram: - users(user_id PK, username, created_at TIMESTAMP) - follows(follower_...
Write Transaction Analytics SQL Queries
You are given a credit-card transaction dataset with the following tables. transactions | column | type | description | |---|---|---| | transaction_id...
Implement a DAG task graph
Implement a class TaskGraph to represent a directed acyclic graph of tasks. Support these operations: 1. add_task(task_id: str) -> None: Add a task if...
Implement Election Report and Banking Pipeline
You are given two independent data engineering coding tasks. Task 1: SQL Election Exit Poll by State Report An election analytics team needs a report ...
Implement two string utility functions
Implement the following Python functions: 1. number_of_character(string, char) - Return the number of times character char appears in string. - ...