Top 5% Users by Engagement | Dataford Interview Questions

Your question is Top 5% Users by Engagement. Start with the requirements and the two tables on the right.

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Problem

The needs a quarterly engagement report identifying its most active users. For this exercise, treat the last quarter as 2025-04-01 through 2025-06-30, inclusive. Write a PostgreSQL query that calculates engagement scores and returns the top 5% of users.

Requirements

Include every user, including users with no qualifying activity.
Calculate each user's score from events during the quarter using these weights: login = 1, view = 2, like = 5, comment = 8, share = 10, and publish = 15. Treat unknown or NULL event types as zero points.
Rank users by score descending, breaking ties with user_id ascending, and return CEIL(5% of all users) rows.
Return the user ID, email, engagement score, and rank.

Schema

users

Column	Type	Description
user_idPK	INT	Unique user identifier
email	VARCHAR(255)	User email address

engagement_events

Column	Type	Description
event_idPK	INT	Unique engagement event identifier
user_id	INT	References users.user_id
event_type	VARCHAR(30)	Type of engagement event
occurred_at	DATE	Date when the event occurred