Lowest CPU Pods per Namespace

A hard SQL mock interview question on DataDriven, with an AI interviewer who asks follow-up questions and a hire or no-hire decision at the end.

Domain
SQL
Difficulty
hard
Seniority
L4

Interview Prompt

The platform team wants to reclaim capacity from the idlest pods in the cluster, working namespace by namespace. Surface the five pods using the least CPU in each, with their name, namespace, CPU, and memory usage.

Summary

The five lightest pods per namespace.

How This Interview Works

  1. Read the vague prompt (just like a real interview)
  2. Ask clarifying questions to the AI interviewer
  3. Write and run your SQL against a real database
  4. Answer the interviewer's follow-up questions, then get a hire or no-hire decision