Tech Mahindra
Multinational IT services and consulting company.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
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
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Coding
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medium
Given a table of Telecom Call Detail Records (CDRs), write a SQL query to calculate the rolling 7-day cumulative data usage for each specific user.
#Window Functions
#Time Series
#Data Aggregation
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
How do you find and delete duplicate records in a massive SQL table without creating a temporary table?
#Data Cleansing
#CTEs
#DELETE Statements
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to pivot a table containing 'Year', 'Month', and 'Revenue' so that each Month becomes a column with the corresponding Revenue.
#Pivot
#Data Transformation
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the 3rd highest salary from an Employee table without using the LIMIT keyword.
#Subqueries
#Correlated Queries
#Window Functions
Data Engineer
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Technical
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hard
A client complains that a critical reporting query taking data from a 50-million row table is running too slow. Walk me through your step-by-step approach to optimize it.
#Query Optimization
#Indexing
#Execution Plans
Data Engineer
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Technical
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easy
Explain the difference between ROW_NUMBER(), RANK(), and DENSE_RANK(). Provide a scenario where you would specifically choose DENSE_RANK() over RANK().
#Window Functions
#Data Ranking
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).
#Window Functions
#Rolling Average
#Date Functions
Data Scientist
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Coding
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easy
Write a SQL query to find all employees who joined in the last 30 days and have the job title 'Data Scientist'.
#Date Functions
#Filtering
#WHERE Clause
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the top 3 customers by revenue in each region.
#Window Functions
#RANK
#CTEs
Data Scientist
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the second highest salary of employees within each department.
#Window Functions
#DENSE_RANK
#Subqueries
Full Stack Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the nth highest salary from an Employee table.
#Database
#SQL Queries
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a SQL query to find the second highest salary from an Employee table.
#SQL
#Aggregations
#Subqueries
Product Manager
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to calculate the month-over-month churn rate for a B2B subscription service.
#Data Analysis
#Churn
#Business Metrics
Product Manager
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Coding
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easy
Write a SQL query to identify enterprise customers who have not logged into the portal for 90 days but still have an active billing status.
#Data Analysis
#User Engagement
#Retention
Product Manager
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the average time spent per session for users, grouped by device type (iOS, Android, Web).
#Data Analysis
#Engagement
#Aggregation
Product Manager
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the top 10% of enterprise users by API call volume in the last 30 days.
#Data Analysis
#API Metrics
#Window Functions
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Write a SQL query to fetch all duplicate records from a table.
#Database
#Queries
#Aggregation
Software Engineer
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Technical
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easy
Explain the difference between TRUNCATE, DELETE, and DROP in SQL.
#Database
#DDL
#DML
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What are clustered and non-clustered indexes in SQL?
#Database
#Indexing
#Performance
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the nth highest salary of an employee from the Employee table.
#Database
#Queries
#Window Functions
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