1. Initial Screening (Recruiter Round) Format: 20–30 min phone or video call Focus: Resume walkthrough Interest in the role and company Basic tech stack alignment (Snowflake, dbt, SQL) Availability and salary expectations 🧪 2. Technical Interview (Round 1) Format: 45–60 min live coding or take-home assignment Topics: SQL challenges (window functions, joins, aggregations) Data modeling (star vs snowflake schema) ELT pipeline design dbt concepts (macros, incremental models, schema tests) Snowflake features (streams, tasks, clustering keys)