Data Engineer Interview Questions: SQL

In this post, I will try to share some actual questions asked by top companies for Data Engineer positions. A lot of these companies will cover data modelling as one of the rounds and will use the data model for the next round based on SQL queries.

 Q1: Find the number of drivers available for rides in any area at any given point of time.

 Q2: Do you consider Driver and Rider as separate entities? Why or why not?

 Q3: Give me all passenger names who used the app for only airport rides.

 Q4: How will you decide where to apply surge pricing?

 Q5: How will you calculate wait times for rides?

 Q6: A driver can ride multiple cars, how will you find out who is driving which car at any moment?

 Q7: Find out Rank without using any function.

 Q8: How will you delete duplicates from a table?

 Q9: How will you find percentile?

 Q10: You have 3 tables, user_dim (user_id, account_id), account_dim (account_id, paying_customer), and dload_facts (date, user_id, and downloads), find the average number of downloads for free vs paying customers broken out by day. 

 To answer these questions, first we need to come up with a feasible data model. For this post, i will refer to the model we built in the last post. For more details about the data model, see my previous post.


Some more questions with solutions and discussions are summarized at: https://www.datageekinme.com/projects/leetcode-sql-solutions/


Comments

  1. KiranJune 15, 2019 at 11:25 AM

    Hi Nice blog. Do you have SQL solutions for above SQL quires. please do share if you have.

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  2. Kautuk PandeyJune 20, 2019 at 1:39 AM

    Yeah, in the process to write that post. Do share the blog if you liked it.

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    1. UnknownJune 30, 2020 at 7:13 PM

      hi @kautuk Pandey Can you please post the SQL for the above questions ?

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  3. KiranJuly 15, 2019 at 6:42 AM

    Hi Pandey ji, please do share solutions for above queries.if you have already written please provide me link It would be very helpful.
    Thanks.

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  4. AhJune 2, 2020 at 6:15 PM

    Thank you Pandey for writing a series of the great articles about Data Engineering. I was wondering if there are any updates regarding the solutions or the thinking processes that people mentioned above. Also, for the second question, is that for E-R design or Dimensional modeling design? Thanks.

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  5. UnknownNovember 8, 2020 at 7:30 PM

    Hi Kaushik, can you please share the SQLs for the above questions if you have them handy? Thanks.

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  9. UnknownJuly 31, 2021 at 7:47 PM

    Can you provide the solutions. https://www.datageekinme.com/projects/leetcode-sql-solutions/ is broken


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