🔥 SQL Interviews Are Broken: These 20 Questions Prove It

Tired of memorizing trick questions that no one uses in real projects? Great. Let’s roast them all together.

“You’ve written SQL in production for 5 years? Cool. Can you write a recursive CTE with three self-joins, in under 90 seconds, on a whiteboard… upside down?”

Ah yes. The SQL interview. That magical place where actual experience goes to die, and obscure syntax is king.

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If you’ve been asked to find the third highest salary using DENSE_RANK inside a correlated subquery, you’re not alone. Welcome to the chaos. Here's your brutally honest cheat sheet to the most asked, most reused, and most ridiculous SQL interview questions.

Let’s dive into it. Or drown. Whichever comes first.