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Q: how do you query tune? if a query is taking more time then it initially did, what may be the checkpoints and order of things to check to look at the cause Q: [python] find non duplicate numbers in first list and preserve the order of list [1,1,3,2,5,6,5] --> [1,3,2,5,6] Q: [python]flatten a nested list Q: [sql] Rank, row_number, dense rank questions
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
May 25, 2021

Q: how do you query tune? if a query is taking more time then it initially did, what may be the checkpoints and order of things to check to look at the cause Q: [python] find non duplicate numbers in first list and preserve the order of list [1,1,3,2,5,6,5] --> [1,3,2,5,6] Q: [python]flatten a nested list Q: [sql] Rank, row_number, dense rank questions

Using Python, write a one-liner function to return a list containing only the unique elements of the given list. Order doesn't matter. Next, write a function to return an order-preserving list containing only the unique elements of the given list.
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

3.9
Dec 1, 2016

Using Python, write a one-liner function to return a list containing only the unique elements of the given list. Order doesn't matter. Next, write a function to return an order-preserving list containing only the unique elements of the given list.

SQL ==> Sales, promotions, products DB I was able to complete only 3 questions. Python ==> solved only 3 questions. find giving letter in a string Replace None with previous element from List, there was some challenges [None] [None,1,2] ==> [None,1,2] [1,None,2] ==> [1,2,2] [1,4,None,None,3]===> [1,4,4,4,3] Forgot one question In the SQL part, please make sure you learn how to calculate %
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Oct 27, 2020

SQL ==> Sales, promotions, products DB I was able to complete only 3 questions. Python ==> solved only 3 questions. find giving letter in a string Replace None with previous element from List, there was some challenges [None] [None,1,2] ==> [None,1,2] [1,None,2] ==> [1,2,2] [1,4,None,None,3]===> [1,4,4,4,3] Forgot one question In the SQL part, please make sure you learn how to calculate %

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