Sirens and Smoke
An easy 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
- easy
- Seniority
- L3
Interview Prompt
The incident team is auditing the serious alerts that fired this year. From the alert_events table, pull the full event details for every 2026 alert whose severity is high or critical.
Summary
Stale alerts. Still ringing.
How This Interview Works
- Read the vague prompt (just like a real interview)
- Ask clarifying questions to the AI interviewer
- Write and run your SQL against a real database
- Answer the interviewer's follow-up questions, then get a hire or no-hire decision