u/PythonDataEngineer wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
u/michaelnovati, thanks for all the effort you've put into your responses here. As a Data Engineer, I'm wondering if your program is right for me, since DSA interviews are generally easier for DEs (max Leetcode-medium questions) and because DEs also have SQL, Data Modelling, OOP
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Hi, we aren't able to help with DE specific areas or with DE specific domain knowledge. We have a number of mentors who are strong in frontend, iOS and Android, so we do one off mock interviews with them if you are in those areas, but we don't have anyone to do that for DE right now (March 2023).
We have very minimal bare bones SQL practice (\~5, 2-3 hour long practice assessments of varying difficulty, not hooked up to our training algorithms) but we constantly update and change things (which as OP posted can be a bit hectic as things do change frequently - all in an attempt to get you the best resources, practice, etc...) and more basic SQL skills have been creeping into more SWE interviews lately, but nothing formally launched.
We have strong systems design for a junior, mid-level, and low senior engineer, which is useful for full stack, generalist, backend, infra, dev-ops, sre, and DE and that covers system architecture and system modeling, which overlaps data modeling, but not so much at the schema and object modeling level.
The career support, job hunt support, and negotiation support all applies, other than that we don't source jobs for DE and we don't source referrals for DE. But you can always try to leverage the network to apply to DE jobs referred by a SWE there.
So overall, I'm on the fence. Some DEs have had great success, but as I've said repeatedly, you have to be on the same page about what we will and won't do. I don't think we will lead you off course into skills that aren't useful but we also won't cover the full list of things you'll need, like maybe 50% of them.
Interview Kickstart is a competitor you should compare us to and they have a DE track: [https://www.interviewkickstart.com/courses/data-engineering-interview-masterclass](https://www.interviewkickstart.com/courses/data-engineering-interview-masterclass). Their DE track covers what we cover except for the DE module they have - which is granted - a very important piece of the puzzle.