Whats your best book recommendation to prepare for the data engineer interview?

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Idk if this is the best specifically for DE interviews, but the gold standard in system design reading is Designing Data Intensive Applications by Kleppmann. Relevant as can be for DE, but won't teach you Scala syntax or whatever

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Agree 100%

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Data warehouse toolkit by the kimbal group

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Thank you, ill take a look

Data Engineer interview will be based on concepts , which I am not sure can be covered by a single book. Today’s landscape has changed so much.
I am not sure how much time you have , but I would suggest read the Microsoft Azure Data Engineering certification material, that is Azure focused but concepts are generic.
Other part of interview may be about the technology asked as part of job description.
Also , you can talk to recruiter if he can suggest what kind of data engineer they are looking for.
Is is focused on relational databases or they are more into NoSql .
Because if you are not in DE space, it may not be easy to just read and crack the interview.

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Lol remembering what you read during your 4year masters

Data Engineering with Python, most books are bad though

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