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From Failing SQL Interviews to Getting 4 Jobs!

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Veeraj Kantilal Gadda
May 16, 2026
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My first Amazon interview. (Business Intelligence Engineer role ). 2020 January.

The technical round had 1 SQL question. Write a query to find the top three cities by profit for each country. I knew Select. I knew Group By. I had done joins before, but I had never used window functions. I didn’t know rank or dense rank even existed.

I tried to solve it …

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