Tesla
Automotive and energy company pushing boundaries in autonomous driving and AI.
4 Rounds
~18 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a table of vehicle battery temperature logs with columns (vehicle_id, timestamp, temperature), write a SQL query to calculate the 7-day rolling average temperature for each vehicle. How would you optimize this if the table has billions of rows?
#Window Functions
#Time Series
#Query Optimization
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a table 'production_logs' with columns (factory_id, car_model, produced_at, status), write a SQL query to find the top 3 factories with the highest daily yield rate (successful builds / total attempts) for the Model Y over the last 30 days.
#Aggregations
#CTEs
#Ranking Functions
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a SQL query to identify 'gaps' in vehicle telemetry data. Specifically, find all instances where a specific vehicle stopped sending pings for more than 5 minutes, given a table of pings with (vehicle_id, ping_timestamp).
#Gaps and Islands
#Lead/Lag Functions
#Time Series Analysis
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