The Comfortable Middle
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
- L5
Interview Prompt
A FinOps team is auditing cloud spend and wants the allocations that run hot without being the obvious outliers. Within each team, find the cost allocations above that team's average amount that still fall outside the team's three largest, and return each one's team name and amount.
Summary
Above average but not extreme.
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