Accenture

Accenture

Global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.

4 Rounds ~21 Days Medium
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Interview Question Bank

Backend Engineer Coding medium

Write a SQL query to rank employees within their respective departments based on their salaries.

#Database #Window Functions
Backend Engineer Coding easy

Write a SQL query to find the second highest salary from an Employee table. If there is no second highest salary, return null.

#Database #Queries #Aggregation
Data Engineer Coding easy

Write a SQL query to find all employees who earn more than their direct managers.

#Self Joins #SQL Queries
Data Engineer Coding medium

Write a SQL query to calculate the rolling 7-day average of sales for each product.

#Window Functions #Time Series #SQL Queries
Data Engineer Coding medium

Write a SQL query to delete duplicate rows from a table without using a temporary table, keeping only the row with the lowest ID.

#Data Cleansing #SQL Queries
Data Engineer Coding medium

Write a SQL query to pivot rows into columns. For example, turning a table of 'Employee, Month, Salary' into 'Employee, Jan_Salary, Feb_Salary, etc.'

#Data Transformation #SQL Queries #Pivot
Data Engineer Coding medium

Explain the difference between ROW_NUMBER(), RANK(), and DENSE_RANK() in SQL. Can you write a query to find the 3rd highest salary in each department using one of these?

#Window Functions #Data Aggregation #SQL Queries
Data Scientist Coding medium

Write a SQL query to calculate the 7-day rolling average of daily transaction volumes for a specific client account.

#Window Functions #Time Series #Data Aggregation
Data Scientist Coding medium

Write a SQL query using window functions to find the top 3 highest-paid employees in each department of a client's organization.

#Window Functions #DENSE_RANK #Joins
Data Scientist Coding medium

Write a SQL query to identify customers who have made a purchase in every single month of the year 2023.

#Aggregation #Date Functions #HAVING Clause
Machine Learning Engineer Coding easy

Write a SQL query to find all clients who have purchased product A but never purchased product B. Assume a 'clients' table and an 'orders' table.

#Joins #Subqueries #Filtering
Machine Learning Engineer Coding medium

Write a SQL query using window functions to rank the top 3 highest-spending customers per region from a 'sales' table.

#Window Functions #Ranking #Aggregations
Product Manager Coding easy

Write a SQL query to find the top 3 clients by revenue in the last quarter from a 'transactions' and 'clients' table.

#Joins #Aggregation #Date Functions
Product Manager Coding medium

Write a SQL query to calculate the month-over-month retention rate of users on a newly launched SaaS platform.

#Self Joins #Cohort Analysis #Advanced SQL
Software Engineer Coding medium

Write a SQL query to find the nth highest salary from an Employee table.

#SQL #Aggregation #Subqueries

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