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dbt Labs Team, Stumped by a SQL Engine Disk-Write Question

FivetranSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026

Fivetran acquired dbt Labs, and this position is under dbt Labs. HR call, pretty standard, just collecting background - 30 min HM call, introduced how the team is set up, standard behavioral questions - 1 hour System design: design a simplified version of WhatsApp. I felt the interviewer's level was just so-so — he was still getting stuck on RDBMS vs NoSQL differences, that kind of old-school que…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.