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1. Imagine a table keeping track of all the rides a driver undertakes in a given day. How do you query that table to find out the time when he did not have any rides. So the table may have a record when he picks up his first ride and then he picks another and then drops both of them. After a while he picks up a few more which again is recorded in the table. So with all that how do you find the data when he does not have any rides
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Lyft

3.8
Feb 18, 2019

1. Imagine a table keeping track of all the rides a driver undertakes in a given day. How do you query that table to find out the time when he did not have any rides. So the table may have a record when he picks up his first ride and then he picks another and then drops both of them. After a while he picks up a few more which again is recorded in the table. So with all that how do you find the data when he does not have any rides

SQL Coding: 5 questions 4 tables were given and questions were mostly on joins, aggregate functions, sub queries. Python Coding: I guess there were total 5 questions but could reach only till second question. Count the number of words in a sentence. Count the frequency of words from the list and store the results in a hash map.
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Feb 4, 2017

SQL Coding: 5 questions 4 tables were given and questions were mostly on joins, aggregate functions, sub queries. Python Coding: I guess there were total 5 questions but could reach only till second question. Count the number of words in a sentence. Count the frequency of words from the list and store the results in a hash map.

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