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Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the top 3 job postings with the highest application rate (applications / views) in the last 7 days. Only include jobs with at least 100 views.
#Aggregations
#Filtering
#Sorting
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a SQL query to calculate the 7-day rolling average of profile views for each user.
#Window Functions
#Time Series
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a 'connections' table and a 'messages' table, write a SQL query to find the percentage of users who connected with each other but never sent a message.
#Joins
#Subqueries
#Math
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find members who applied to jobs at companies where they have at least one 1st-degree connection.
#Complex Joins
#Filtering
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
You have a table of user activity logs. Write a SQL query to sessionize the data, where a new session starts if there is a gap of more than 30 minutes between activities.
#Window Functions
#Sessionization
#CTEs
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the cumulative sum of premium subscriptions purchased per month for the year 2023.
#Window Functions
#Aggregations
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to identify the second highest salary within each engineering department at LinkedIn.
#Window Functions
#Ranking
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the top 3 most requested skills for Data Science job postings in the last 30 days.
#Window Functions
#Aggregations
#Date Functions
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Given a 'connection_requests' table, write a query to calculate the daily connection acceptance rate.
#Ratio Calculations
#Group By
#Case Statements
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the percentage of users who sent a LinkedIn message but did not receive a reply within 24 hours.
#Self Joins
#Time Intervals
#Left Joins
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Given a table of job applications, write a SQL query to compute the 7-day rolling average of applications per job category.
#Window Functions
#Rolling Averages
#Time Series
Data Scientist
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Coding
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hard
Write a SQL query to find all 2nd-degree connections for a given user ID.
#Graph Traversal in SQL
#Self Joins
#Filtering
Full Stack Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Design a database schema for LinkedIn connections, handling states like pending, accepted, and blocked.
#Schema Design
#SQL
#Normalization
Full Stack Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the top 3 universities with the highest number of alumni currently working at LinkedIn.
#SQL
#Aggregation
#Joins
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