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Nth Highest Salary Per Department

A medium SQL mock interview question on DataDriven. Practice with AI-powered feedback, real code execution, and a hire/no-hire decision.

Domain
SQL
Difficulty
medium
Seniority
senior

Interview Prompt

Given an employee_metrics table with department, employee name, and metric value, write a query to find the employee with the third-highest metric value in each department. Exclude departments with fewer than 3 employees.

How This Interview Works

  1. Read the vague prompt (just like a real interview)
  2. Ask clarifying questions to the AI interviewer
  3. Write your sql solution with real code execution
  4. Get instant feedback and a hire/no-hire decision