Top Percentile Spenders

A medium 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
medium
Seniority
L7

Interview Prompt

The bar for the top third is not a dollar figure: it sits wherever this window's buyers land against each other, each judged on everything they paid over the last 90 days of `transactions` rather than on any single purchase. Return the customers above that bar with each one's total.

Summary

Top 1% of users by total spend via percentile bucketing.

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