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Assesses conflict resolution, communication, and ownership when collaborating with a difficult teammate under delivery pressure.
Approach for maintaining data quality and integrity across ETL pipelines.
Tests ownership under ambiguity: how you prioritize, align stakeholders, and recover a project when the path forward is unclear.
Tests communication and influence: can you translate technical complexity into business decisions, align stakeholders, and drive action?
Explain how INNER JOIN and LEFT JOIN differ, and when to use each for matched-only versus all-left-row analysis.
Approach for safely backfilling missing data while preserving correctness, idempotency, and data quality.
Tests how you handle criticism of your work through communication, ownership, and constructive response under pressure.
Compare ETL and ELT, and explain when ELT is the better pipeline pattern.
Explain SQL window functions and when to use ROW_NUMBER() versus DENSE_RANK() for ranked ticket analysis.
Explain how clustered and non-clustered indexes differ in storage, lookup behavior, and query performance.
Explain how LAG and LEAD compare current rows to previous or next periods in time-series SQL analysis.
Find the second highest distinct salary from a single table using basic PostgreSQL ordering and limiting.
Compare star and snowflake schemas in a warehouse pipeline, including structure and transformation trade-offs.
Explain the differences between WHERE and HAVING clauses in SQL and when to use each.
Explain how to detect and handle NULL values in SQL using filtering, COALESCE, CASE, and business-aware imputation.
Explain how RANK(), DENSE_RANK(), and ROW_NUMBER() differ when ordering tied clinical trial results.
Explain common SQL-friendly ways to detect outliers and how to handle them without distorting downstream analysis.
Design and implement SCD Type 1 and Type 2 dimensions with history tracking, idempotent loads, and data quality controls.
Explain how RANK() and DENSE_RANK() handle ties differently in ordered SQL results such as leaderboards.
Explain how UNION and UNION ALL differ when combining result sets, especially around duplicate handling and performance.
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