Everyone Wants the Same Data, Differently
A hard Pipeline Design mock interview question on DataDriven, with an AI interviewer who asks follow-up questions and a hire or no-hire decision at the end.
- Domain
- Pipeline Design
- Difficulty
- hard
- Seniority
- L7
Interview Prompt
Several teams at our company need the same event data but query it very differently. Design a data ingestion pipeline and consider the tradeoffs depending on how the data will be accessed.
Summary
How you store it decides how fast you can read it.
How This Interview Works
- Read the vague prompt (just like a real interview)
- Ask clarifying questions to the AI interviewer
- Draw your pipeline on the design canvas: sources, transforms, storage and checks
- Answer the interviewer's follow-up questions, then get a hire or no-hire decision