The Ultimate Data Engineering Interview Guide

This is the only guide you will need to crack any data engineering interview rounds including DSA, Data Modeling, SQL, System Design and more in any FAANG or similar product companies.

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Resources mentioned in the video:

DSA:
Cracking the coding interview: github.com/AatmikJain/ComputerScienceBooks/blob/ma…
Leetcode 150 DSA: leetcode.com/studyplan/top-interview-150/

Data Modeling and SQL:
Dimensional data modeling: www.holistics.io/books/setup-analytics/kimball-s-d…
Data warehouse toolkit: github.com/letthedataconfess/Data-Engineering-Book…
SQL tutorial: www.w3schools.com/sql/
Leetcode 50 SQL: leetcode.com/studyplan/top-sql-50/

System design:
Certifications video:    • Best Certificates for Data Engineers in 2025  
Roadmap video:    • God Tier Data Engineering Roadmap - 2025 E...  
AWS open data: aws.amazon.com/opendata/
AWS architecture center: aws.amazon.com/architecture/

RRK (only examples shown in video):
Spark debugging: docs.databricks.com/en/optimizations/spark-ui-guid…
Snowflake clustering: docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/tables-clustering…

0:00 Interview Process Overview
2:56 DSA
7:00 Amber Student Accommodation
8:06 Data Modeling and SQL
11:43 System Design
15:18 Role Related Knowledge