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Practice a Data Engineering workday

Debug pipelines, fix data quality issues, and keep the warehouse healthy. Spend 30–60 minutes inside a realistic data engineering simulation — Slack threads, tickets, code review, and a hidden challenge that mirrors what actually happens on the job.

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What a Data Engineering workday looks like

9:00 AM

Standup

Data team daily sync — pipeline statuses and data quality alerts

9:30 AM

Incident triage

Review Airflow DAG failures and dbt test failures from last night's run

11:00 AM

Pipeline debug

Query the warehouse to find the root cause of the broken revenue_daily model

2:00 PM

Code fix

Fix the broken dbt model transformation and add a test to catch it next time

4:30 PM

Docs + runbook

Update the pipeline runbook and document the fix for postmortem

4:55 PM

End of day

Trying to log off — Pranav (Director of Analytics) wants a one-time bypass on the partition_filter_required constraint for a 5-year orders_fact scan. The query would saturate the slot pool and impact every team's queries.

Tickets you'll work on

DATA-51high

P0: revenue_daily dbt model failing — finance blocked since 02:14 UTC

DATA-48high

Airflow DAG: customer_segment_refresh stuck in retry loop (attempt 3/3)

DATA-45medium

Add row count validation + not_null tests to orders_cleaned

Your AI teammates

AL

Aisha Lee

Data Engineering Lead

PM

Pablo M.

Analytics Engineer

VC

Vera C.

Data Analyst

PS

Pranav Singh

Director of Analytics

What you walk away with

Scorecard

Technical, communication, and collaboration scores plus a letter grade — instantly after the workday ends.

Hiring manager feedback

A written debrief explaining what you did well and what would have raised concerns in a real interview loop.

Verified certificate

Shareable LinkedIn certificate that links back to your scorecard — proof you can perform, not just answer questions.

Behavioral signals

Did you communicate proactively, escalate when needed, prioritize correctly under pressure? All measured.

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