Software Engineer Data Manipulation (SQL/Python) Interview Questions
Practice 52 real Data Manipulation (SQL/Python) interview questions for Software Engineer roles. From companies including Amazon, DoorDash, NVIDIA, Akuna Capital, Instacart.
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Calculate minutes between two time strings
Given two times t1 and t2 in "HH:MM" 24-hour format on the same day with t2 > t1, compute the difference in minutes. Show how you parse the strings, c...
Parse logs and query by time
Implement a parser that converts raw log lines into structured records with fields {timestamp, level, message}. Build an API to support: (a) insert(lo...
Answer SQL MCQs with reasoning
Answer multiple-choice questions covering SQL topics: INNER vs LEFT vs RIGHT JOIN semantics; GROUP BY and HAVING; NULL handling in comparisons and agg...
Implement pagination and clump grouping
You are given two pre-implemented APIs: ( 1) fetch_activities(page: int) -> { total_pages: int, activities: [ { activity_id: string, type: string, use...
Pivot data without date libraries
Transform a tall dataset into a wide, pivoted view without using any date/time libraries. Input: a list of records (date, store_id, metric, value) whe...
Compute unique visitors by department
You have two tables: products(product_id, department, category, subcategory) where department > category > subcategory form a parent–child hierarchy, ...
Count IoT devices matching date and threshold
Implement function numDevices(statusQuery, threshold, dateStr) that returns the number of IoT devices from a paginated REST API that were added in the...
Create SQL report of top extensions by weekday
You are given a PostgreSQL table service_access_log with columns: method TEXT (HTTP verb), path TEXT (URL path that may include a filename and optiona...
Write PostgreSQL updates with date filters
Write PostgreSQL statements to: ( 1) update a flight's price and set updated_at correctly; ( 2) upsert a booking record with conflict handling; ( 3) s...
Implement a pivot table transformation
Given a dataset of transactions with columns: user_id (string), category (string), subcategory (string), amount (float), ts (ISO timestamp), implement...
Write complex SQL for cohorts and retention
Given tables users(uid, created_at, country), orders(order_id, uid, amount, created_at, status), and events(uid, ts, event_type, campaign), write one ...
Implement and debug event filtering in Python
You are given a list of event dictionaries with keys: id (str), type (str), ts (int, seconds since epoch), payload (dict). Implement filter_events(eve...