SaaS API Connector with Incremental Sync
A medium 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
- medium
- Seniority
- L5
Interview Prompt
We need to pull data from a third-party CRM into our warehouse on a continuous basis. The vendor's API has rate limits, changes schema without notice, and we need a full historical copy plus ongoing incremental updates. Design a data pipeline that reliably syncs this API source into our warehouse.
Summary
The API has rate limits. You have deadlines.
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