dbt interview questions for data engineers
Models, tests, refs, materializations, and analytics engineering day-to-day. 34 questions with full answers, written for freshers. All topics
dbt Fundamentals (6)
Testing & Documentation (1)
Incremental Models & Performance (3)
Modern dbt Features (9)
Workflow, CI & Performance (15)
- Slim CI with state:modified and defer
- Node selection syntax
- Ephemeral models trade-offs
- Project structure: staging, intermediate, marts
- Model grain and uniqueness tests
- Generating schema names per environment
- Warehouse-specific configs
- dbt run takes 3 hours
- A source column was renamed upstream
- Analyses and operations
- Grants and access control in dbt
- dbt artifacts
- Variables and the vars config
- dbt with an orchestrator
- dbt vs stored procedures