Employees Per Department Query | Dataford Interview Questions

Auto-Owners Insurance maintains department and employee records for internal workforce reporting. Write a PostgreSQL query that returns the total number of employees assigned to each department.

Requirements

Include every department, including departments with no matching employees.
Count employees per department using an aggregation.
Sort results by employee count descending, then department name ascending for ties.

Schema

departments

Column	Type	Description
department_idPK	INT	Unique department identifier
department_name	VARCHAR(100)	Department name

employees

Column	Type	Description
employee_idPK	INT	Unique employee identifier
employee_name	VARCHAR(100)	Employee's name
department_id	INT	Assigned department identifier
employment_status	VARCHAR(20)	Current employment status

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