Analyze User Engagement and Spammer Read-Rate in SQL
Company: Meta
Role: Data Scientist
Category: Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)
Difficulty: Medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
messages
+------------+------------+-------------+--------------+-----------+
| sender_id | receiver_id| message_id | sent_date | read_date |
+------------+------------+-------------+--------------+-----------+
| 1232412 | 12342 | 124 | 2024-01-01 | 2024-01-01|
| 6534354 | 423452 | 342 | 2024-01-02 | NULL |
| 1234412 | 34214 | 425 | 2024-01-01 | 2024-01-05|
+------------+------------+-------------+--------------+-----------+
violating_scores
+---------+----------------+-------------+
| user_id | violation_type | p_violating |
+---------+----------------+-------------+
| 1232412 | spam | 0.4 |
| 6534354 | scam | 0.9 |
| 1234412 | impersonation | 0.1 |
+---------+----------------+-------------+
##### Scenario
Messaging platform needs SQL analyses of user engagement and spammer behavior in the past week.
##### Question
How many users received more than 10 messages in a single day during the last 7 days? What is the average read-rate for spammers over the last week? Read-rate = (read messages sent by spammers) / (all messages sent by spammers).
##### Hints
Filter by last 7 days; join spammers from violating_scores; aggregate counts and ratios.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates SQL-based data manipulation and analytics skills—specifically joins, time-window filtering, aggregation, and metric calculation for measuring user engagement and spammer read-rate—within the Data Manipulation (SQL/Python) domain.