Top 50 schema design Interview Questions
The most frequently asked schema design questions across all roles and companies, ranked by real interview frequency. Updated daily.
Identify transaction data risks caused by nullable relationships, invalid amounts, inactive accounts, missing currencies, and duplicate references.
MercuryDesign normalized activity tables and query each user's recent activity count and latest event efficiently.
Amazon Web ServicesDesign a real-time Uber interaction schema and summarize each user's interaction activity, including users with no recorded events.
UberModel clinical trial entities and report monthly enrollment, visit completion, prior-month enrollment, and center rankings.
MSDModel consumer requirements relationally and report each consumer's active requirement count and latest assignment.
AffirmTrack each vehicle part from production events through delivery using CTEs, joins, conditional aggregation, and LAG.
TeslaBuild a validated account-level analytical model from source account and event data using aggregation and a left join.
WaymoDesign a normalized simulation schema and retrieve each team's latest completed dataset run.
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