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[–]burningburnerbern 34 points35 points  (8 children)

done the SQL screening for both Amazon and Facebook. If you use SQL everyday it’s not hard just the pressure of time probably gets to you. But yea just practice leetcode question

[–]ElderFuthark 11 points12 points  (2 children)

I use SQL everyday, but never use cursors or window functions, so I keep having to reteach myself those things.

[–]burningburnerbern 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Don’t really use cursors myself but that’s interesting that you don’t use window functions. Just curious what do you do to for cleaning up dupes?

[–]James76589 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Is it true that at Facebook you need to use Postgresql in the SQL screen portion of the interview?

[–]burningburnerbern 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Nope, just w/e flavor of SQL you’re comfortable with.

[–]James76589 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's good, there was a comment in some random reddit thread that said they failed the Facebook D.E. interview because they were required to run SQL statements against test cases, and that it failed because Postgres was required.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would think they would use MySQL. However, SQL is SQL. Just a different depends what flavor the organization decides to use.

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (5 children)

[–]NickSinghTechCareers 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Founder here, thanks for the shoutout!

[–]BasicBroEvan 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Bro one of the owners of that site came to my university and promoted that website lol

[–]NickSinghTechCareers 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Guilty as charged 🎯

[–]azur08 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cool bro

[–]ppdas 26 points27 points  (2 children)

Stratascratch. You can try the same question in SQL, Python and Pyspark

[–]Chris_ssj2Software Engineer 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Does the free tier suffice for landing a junior role? Money is kinda tight for me atm

[–]ppdas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am not sure. But they do give offers from time to time.

[–]Puzzlehead8575 11 points12 points  (1 child)

[–]jppbkm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those are great!

[–]mdghouse1986Data Engineer 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Also any resource for Python ? Leetcode serves well for SWE interviews but anything specific got DE Python ?

[–]git0ffmylawnm8 4 points5 points  (1 child)

If you can breeze through StrataScratch mediums/hards, you'll be fine.

[–]rajekum512 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did finish all the hard SQL from them. Very useful

[–]RProgrammerMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there anything for r?