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Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.

Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)

Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.

Interview Question Bank

Data Engineer Coding 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 Coding hard

Write a SQL query to calculate the 7-day rolling average of profile views for each user.

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

Write a SQL query to identify the second highest salary within each engineering department at LinkedIn.

#Window Functions #Ranking
Data Scientist Coding 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 Coding medium

Given a 'connection_requests' table, write a query to calculate the daily connection acceptance rate.

#Ratio Calculations #Group By #Case Statements
Data Scientist Coding 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 Coding 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 Coding 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 Technical medium

Design a database schema for LinkedIn connections, handling states like pending, accepted, and blocked.

#Schema Design #SQL #Normalization
Full Stack Engineer Technical 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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