Nth Highest Salary Query | Dataford Interview Questions

Freecharge’s people analytics team needs to identify employees at a selected salary tier. Write a PostgreSQL query to return every active employee earning the third-highest distinct salary.

Requirements

Consider only employees whose employment_status is ACTIVE and whose salary is not NULL.
Use DENSE_RANK() so employees with the same salary share a rank, and return rank 3.
Include the employee name, salary, salary rank, and department name. Preserve employees whose department is missing or unmatched by using a LEFT JOIN.
Order the result by salary descending and employee ID ascending.

Schema

employees

Column	Type	Description
employee_idPK	INT	Unique employee identifier
employee_name	VARCHAR(100)	Employee full name
department_id	INT	Referenced department identifier
salary	NUMERIC(12,2)	Annual employee salary
employment_status	VARCHAR(20)	Current employment status

departments

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

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