Principal Data Engineer Interview Questions

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Akamai

4.3★

Mar 26, 2019

Implement a queue using only stacks.

Principal Consultant

Interviewed at EY

3.6★

Jul 3, 2021

Where do you think your skills fit to the organization?

Principal Architect

Interviewed at Caterpillar

4★

Aug 4, 2022

Explain Full architecture life cycle for a given scenario

Principal Consultant

Interviewed at Tieto

3.9★

Jun 30, 2021

based on technical skill set, mostly interactive using scree sharing

Principal Architect

Interviewed at DHL

3.8★

Jul 3, 2025

Task description: We need to design a web-application that: - Reads the translations displayed on the frontend from a remote API (let's call it aem), - Retrieves some business data from a remote API (let's call it backend-data) Considerations: 'aem' backend is known to be unstable, but translations are very important Tasks: - Suggest application design - Suggest technologies (developers have experience with React for frontend, Spring / Spring-boot for backend but if there's a strong argument for another technology, let's present it) - Suggest branching model in our git repository - Suggest release process - Suggest cloud platform where we could host such application

Principal Architect

Interviewed at DHL

3.8★

Jul 3, 2025

Task description: We need to design a web-application that: - Reads the translations displayed on the frontend from a remote API (let's call it aem), - Retrieves some business data from a remote API (let's call it backend-data) Considerations: 'aem' backend is known to be unstable, but translations are very important Tasks: - Suggest application design - Suggest technologies (developers have experience with React for frontend, Spring / Spring-boot for backend but if there's a strong argument for another technology, let's present it) - Suggest branching model in our git repository - Suggest release process - Suggest cloud platform where we could host such application

Principal Scientist

Interviewed at Tate & Lyle

3.7★

May 18, 2016

Are you comfortable with working for an ingredients company given you have never worked for one before?

Senior Principal Consultant

Interviewed at NTT DATA

3.7★

Nov 17, 2014

1) various business analyst scenarios

Principal Engineer

Interviewed at Safran

3.9★

Aug 12, 2019

The usual: waht is your biggest achievement How do you see the market for Safran . what products should be developed etc.

Principal Consultant

Interviewed at Capco

3.8★

Jan 14, 2025

Why Capco and why now?