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Spreadsheet Logic to SQL Thinking

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Problem

Explain your Excel-to-SQL thinking

You are asked to explain which Excel functions you use most often in financial analysis and why. Keep the answer practical, and connect those spreadsheet habits to SQL data manipulation patterns you would use for recurring reporting, reconciliation, and cleanup tasks.

What this tests

  • How you summarize financial data
  • How you apply conditional business logic
  • How you reconcile datasets with key-based matching
  • How you handle missing values and messy exports