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A senior engineer joins a public fintech with 412 DAGs from four years of accumulation: 80 mission-c

A medium Pipeline Design mock interview question on DataDriven. Practice with AI-powered feedback, real code execution, and a hire/no-hire decision.

Domain
Pipeline Design
Difficulty
medium

Interview Prompt

A senior engineer joins a public fintech with 412 DAGs from four years of accumulation: 80 mission-critical with no contracts, 332 orphans with no identifiable consumers, custom Python every ingestion path, one Airflow owning every DAG. The CTO wants both a target architecture and a deprecation plan. Apply the entire advanced tier: shared layers with named contracts, every undercurrent visible as tooling, split orchestrators at team boundaries, managed ingestion for commodity SaaS, and a deprecation queue tracked in the catalog.

How This Interview Works

  1. Read the vague prompt (just like a real interview)
  2. Ask clarifying questions to the AI interviewer
  3. Write your pipeline design solution with real code execution
  4. Get instant feedback and a hire/no-hire decision

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