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Employees Joined This Year

EasySQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Find how many employees joined this company during this year.

Asked in the Virtual Onsite stage. SQL question asked during interview rounds.

Task

Write a SQL query to count employees whose join_date falls in the current calendar year.

Requirements

  1. Return a single row with the total count.
  2. Use PostgreSQL date logic based on the current year.
  3. Ignore employees with NULL join dates.

Output

Schema

employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTPrimary key for each employee
employee_nameVARCHAR(255)Employee full name
join_dateDATEDate the employee joined the company
Tablesemployees
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