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A/B Testing

Algorithms

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Machine Learning

Probability

Product Metrics

Python

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You work as a data engineer at Skyscanner. Your team is responsible for ingesting, transforming, and loading flight and hotel availability data from dozens of external partner APIs into Skyscanner’s real-time search platform. The system must ensure high data freshness, fault tolerance, and scalability as new partners are onboarded.

How would you architect the ETL pipeline to support these requirements? Design a system flow explaining this architecture.

Design a scalable ETL pipeline for ingesting heterogeneous data from Skyscanner's partners.

Skyscanner Partner ETL

Batch & Stream Processing

Suppose there exists a new airline named Jetco that flies domestically across North America. Jetco recently had a study commissioned that tested the boarding time of every airline, and it came out that Jetco had the fastest average boarding times of any airline.

What factors could have biased this result, and what would you look into?

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

Boarding Times Bias

A new airline came out as the fastest average boarding times compared to other airlines.  What factors could have biased this result and what would you look into?

You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many t-tests. What considerations should be made?

What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?

What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?

Hundreds of Hypotheses

You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many t-tests. What considerations should be made?

Question	Topic	Difficulty	Ask Chance
Skyscanner Partner ETL	Batch & Stream Processing	Hard	Very High
Boarding Times Bias	Statistics	Medium	Very Low
Hundreds of Hypotheses	Statistics	Medium	Very Low

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