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Elastic Interview Questions

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Written by IQ Team
Jay Feng
Reviewed by Jay Feng
Published March 27, 2026
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

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SQL
Easy

We’re given two tables, a users table with demographic information and the neighborhood they live in and a neighborhoods table.

Write a query that returns all neighborhoods that have 0 users. 

Example:

Input:

users table

Columns Type
id INTEGER
name VARCHAR
neighborhood_id INTEGER
created_at DATETIME

neighborhoods table

Columns Type
id INTEGER
name VARCHAR
city_id INTEGER

Output:

Columns Type
name VARCHAR
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Elastic Salaries by Position

Data Engineer*
$240K
Data Engineer
Median: $240K
Mean (Average): $240K
Data points: 1
Product Manager*
$209K
$210K
Product Manager
Median: $210K
Mean (Average): $210K
Data points: 2
Data Scientist*
$185K
$211K
Data Scientist
Median: $198K
Mean (Average): $198K
Data points: 2
AI Research Scientist*
$195K
AI Research Scientist
Median: $195K
Mean (Average): $195K
Data points: 1
Software Engineer
$89K
$176K
Software Engineer
Median: $132K
Mean (Average): $128K
Data points: 19
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* = Low confidence (less than 5 data points)

Most data science positions fall under different position titles depending on the actual role.

From the graph we can see that on average the Data Engineer role pays the most with a $240,000 base salary while the Software Engineer role on average pays the least with a $128,105 base salary.

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