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Interview Question Bank
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
You have a slow SQL query that is timing out when fetching a user's asset metadata from a PostgreSQL database with 100 million rows. Walk me through your debugging and optimization steps.
#Database Optimization
#Indexing
#Query Execution Plan
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
You notice a specific SQL query in your PostgreSQL database is taking 5 seconds to execute, causing API timeouts. Walk me through your exact steps to debug and optimize it.
#Database Optimization
#Indexing
#EXPLAIN ANALYZE
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find users who purchased a Creative Cloud All Apps subscription but canceled within the first 30 days.
#Joins
#Date Math
#Filtering
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Calculate the cumulative monthly revenue for Adobe Sign, partitioned by geographic region.
#Window Functions
#Aggregations
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to calculate the rolling 7-day active users (DAU) for Adobe Acrobat Web.
#Window Functions
#Date Functions
#Aggregations
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a SQL query to perform a cohort analysis: calculate the month-over-month retention rate of users who signed up in January 2024.
#Cohort Analysis
#Self Joins
#CTEs
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Find the top 3 highest-grossing products in each Adobe product category using SQL.
#Window Functions
#Ranking
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Identify gaps in sequential subscription dates for users. Return the start and end dates of periods where a user did not have an active subscription.
#LEAD/LAG
#Date Functions
#Complex Logic
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Given a table of clickstream events, write a SQL query to group a user's events into sessions. A new session starts if there is a gap of >30 minutes between events.
#Window Functions
#CTEs
#Sessionization
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the top 3 highest revenue-generating enterprise customers for Adobe Experience Manager in each region.
#Window Functions
#Ranking
#Aggregations
Data Scientist
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Coding
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hard
Write a SQL query to calculate the month-over-month retention rate of Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers.
#Window Functions
#Self Joins
#Date Manipulation
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to calculate the 7-day rolling average of daily active users (DAU) for Adobe Illustrator.
#Window Functions
#Time Series
#Aggregations
Data Scientist
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Coding
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hard
Write a SQL query to find the first product each user purchased and the date of their second purchase, if any.
#Window Functions
#CTEs
#Conditional Logic
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to calculate the cumulative sum of monthly revenue for Adobe Document Cloud for the year 2023.
#Window Functions
#Aggregations
Full Stack Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the top 3 most downloaded Adobe Stock assets per category in the last 30 days.
#SQL
#Window Functions
#Aggregations
Product Manager
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Coding
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hard
Write a SQL query to calculate the month-over-month retention rate of Adobe Acrobat Pro users for the year 2023.
#SQL
#Cohort Analysis
#Retention
Product Manager
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the average time it takes for a user to complete a signature workflow in Adobe Sign, grouped by industry.
#SQL
#Time Series
#Aggregations
Product Manager
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the top 10% of users who utilize Generative AI features more than 50 times a month but are still on a free tier.
#SQL
#Data Analysis
#Monetization
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