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Excel Live Assessment

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Problem

Perform a live Excel assessment via screen share requiring creation of custom formulas, VLOOKUPs, and pivot tables.

Asked in the Technical Assessment stage. Live screen-share test during the interview process.

Write a PostgreSQL query that reproduces the same output as the Excel assessment using SQL only.

Requirements

  1. Use orders, customers, and products to enrich each order with customer segment and product category.
  2. Apply Excel-style lookup logic, matching each order to its customer and product details.
  3. Return a pivot-style summary by customer_segment and product_category, with total revenue and order count.
  4. Exclude cancelled orders and ignore rows with missing lookup keys.

Output

Schema

orders
ColumnTypeDescription
order_idPKINTOrder identifier
customer_idINTCustomer reference
product_idINTProduct reference
order_dateDATEOrder date
order_statusVARCHAR(20)Order status
quantityINTUnits ordered
unit_priceDECIMAL(10,2)Price per unit
customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTCustomer identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer name
customer_segmentVARCHAR(50)Reporting segment
products
ColumnTypeDescription
product_idPKINTProduct identifier
product_nameVARCHAR(100)Product name
product_categoryVARCHAR(50)Reporting category
Tablesorderscustomersproducts
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