Microsoft
Enterprise software, cloud (Azure), and AI powerhouse.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Data Scientist
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Coding
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hard
Write a SQL query to calculate 30-day user retention.
#Retention
#Analytics
Data Scientist
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Coding
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hard
How would you write a funnel analysis query in SQL?
#Funnel
#Analytics
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Write a query to identify duplicate records and deduplicate them.
#Deduplication
#Data Quality
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the top 3 departments with the highest number of daily active Microsoft Teams users over the last 30 days. Assume you have a 'user_activity' table and a 'user_directory' table.
#Joins
#Aggregations
#Window Functions
Data Scientist
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Coding
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hard
Given a table of Azure resource provisioning events (event_id, region, start_timestamp, end_timestamp), write a SQL query to calculate the median time to provision a virtual machine for each region.
#Percentiles
#Window Functions
#Date/Time Functions
Data Scientist
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Technical
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easy
Explain the difference between INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, and CROSS JOIN.
#Joins
#SQL
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