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Select the 2nd highest salary in the engineering department

2nd Highest Salary

Write a SQL query to create a histogram of the number of comments per user in the month of January 2020.

Comments Histogram

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

Empty Neighborhoods

Write a query to return the two students with the closest test scores and the score difference

Closest SAT Scores

Write a query to return whether each user's subscription date range overlaps with any other completed subscription

Subscription Overlap

Data Structures & Algorithms

Given two sorted lists, write a function to merge them into one sorted list.

Merge Sorted Lists

Write a function n_frequent_words that returns the top N frequent words and their frequencies, and state its run-time

Get Top N Frequent Words

Write a function to group timestamps into 7-day lists starting from the first timestamp

Weekly Aggregation

Given an integer N, write a function that returns all of the prime numbers up to N

Prime to N

Given a string, write a function to find its first recurring character.

Recurring Character

Machine Learning

How would you encode a categorical variable with thousands of distinct values

Encoding Categorical Features

Interpret coefficients of logistic regression for categorical and boolean variables

Coefficients of Logistic Regression

Which model would perform better and why?

Booking Regression

How would we build a model to detect fraud and text customers to approve or deny fraudulent transactions

Bank Fraud Model

Why can the same machine learning algorithm produce different success rates on the same dataset

Same Algorithm Different Success

Statistics

Write a function compute_deviation that returns the standard deviation of each list in a list of dictionaries

Compute Deviation

Explain what a p-value is to someone who is not technical

P-value to a Layman

Say you are given a dataset of perfectly linearly separable data. What would happen when you run logistic regression?

Perfectly Separable

What are the assumptions of linear regression?

Assumptions of Linear Regression

You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many t-tests. What considerations should be made?

Hundreds of Hypotheses

Data Modeling

Design a data warehouse for a new online retailer

Retailer Data Warehouse

Create a schema to keep track of customer address changes

Address Schema

Design a database schema for a Tinder-style dating app and discuss needed optimizations

Swiping App Design

Design a cost-conscious analytics solution to store and query daily Kafka clickstream data with two-year retention

Clickstream Data

Say you’re running an e-commerce website. You want to get rid of duplicate products that may be listed under different sellers, names, etc... in a very large database.

Duplicate Product Names

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

<p>Write a query that returns all neighborhoods that have 0 users. </p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>users</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>neighborhood_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>neighborhoods</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>city_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


<p>Given the <code>employees</code> and <code>departments</code> table, write a query to get the top 3 highest employee salaries by department. If the department contains less that 3 employees, the top 2 or the top 1 highest salaries should be listed (assume that each department has at least 1 employee). </p>

<p><em>Note: The output should include the full name of the employee in one column, the department name, and the salary. The output should be sorted by department name in ascending order and salary in descending order.</em> </p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>employees</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>first_name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>last_name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>salary</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>department_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>departments</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output</strong>:</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>employee_nam</code>e</td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>department_name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>salary</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Get the top 3 highest employee salaries by department

Top Three Salaries

<p>Write a SQL query to select the 2nd highest salary in the engineering department.</p>

<p><strong>Note:</strong> If more than one person shares the highest salary, the query should select the next highest salary.</p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>employees</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>first_name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>last_name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>salary</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>department_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>departments</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>salary</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


<p>Write a SQL query to create a histogram of the number of comments per user in the month of January 2020.</p>

<p><em>Note: Assume bin buckets class intervals of one.</em></p>

<p><em>Note: Comments that were created outside of January 2020 should be counted in a “0” bucket</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>users</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>neighborhood_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>mail</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>comments</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>body</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>comment_count</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>frequency</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


<p>We’re given a table of product purchases. Each row in the table represents an individual user product purchase.</p>

<p>Write a query to get the number of customers that were upsold, or in other words, the number of users who bought additional products after their first purchase.</p>

<p><em>Note: If the customer purchased two things on the same day, that does not count as an upsell, as they were purchased within a similar timeframe.</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>transactions</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>product_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>quantity</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>num_of_upsold_customers</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Write a query to get the number of customers that were upsold

Upsell Transactions

<p>Given an integer <code>N</code>, write a function that returns a list of all of the prime numbers up to <code>N</code>.</p>

<p><em>Note: Return an empty list there are no prime numbers less than or equal to <code>N</code>.</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">N</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">3</span>
</span></span></code></pre>

<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">prime_numbers</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">N</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span></code></pre>


<p>We’re given a table of bank transactions with three columns, <code>user_id</code>, a deposit or withdrawal value (determined if the value is positive or negative), and <code>created_at</code> time for each transaction.</p>

<p>Write a query to get the total three-day rolling average for deposits by day.</p>

<p><em>Note: Please use the format <code>&#39;%Y-%m-%d&#39;</code> for the date in the outout</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>bank_transactions</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>transaction_value</code></td>
<td>FLOAT</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>dt</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>rolling_three_day</code></td>
<td>FLOAT</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Write a query to get the total three-day rolling average for deposits by day

Rolling Bank Transactions

<p>Write a query to identify customers who placed more than three transactions each in both 2019 and 2020.</p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>transactions</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>product_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>quantity</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>users</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> 
<strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>customer_name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


<p>Which of the following queries will return a list of customers and the total amount they have spent on orders?</p>


Which of the following queries will return a list of customers and the total amount they have spent on orders?

Customer Orders

Write a query to identify customers who placed more than three transactions each in both 2019 and 2020

<p>Given two sorted lists, write a function to merge them into one sorted list.</p>

<p><em>Bonus: What’s the time complexity?</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">list1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">list2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span></code></pre>

<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">merge_list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">list1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">list2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span></code></pre>


<p>You have two sorted lists, one with m elements and one with n elements. What would be the time complexity of merging the two lists via merge sort?</p>


You have two sorted lists, one with m elements and one with n elements. What would be the time complexity of merging the two lists via merge sort? 

Merging Lists Complexity

<p>Given a table of students and their SAT test scores, write a query to return the two students with the closest test scores with the score difference.</p>

<p>If there are multiple students with the same minimum score difference, select the student name combination that is higher in the alphabet. </p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>scores</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>student</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>score</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>one_student</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>other_student</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>score_diff</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


<p>Given a table of product subscriptions with a subscription start date and end date for each user, write a query that returns true or false whether or not each user has a subscription date range that overlaps with any other completed subscription.</p>

<p>Completed subscriptions have <code>end_date</code> recorded.</p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>subscriptions</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>start_date</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>end_date</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th><code>user_id</code></th>
<th><code>start_date</code></th>
<th><code>end_date</code></th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2019-01-01</td>
<td>2019-01-31</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>2019-01-15</td>
<td>2019-01-17</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>2019-01-29</td>
<td>2019-02-04</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>2019-02-05</td>
<td>2019-02-10</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th><code>user_id</code></th>
<th><code>overlap</code></th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


<p>Given a table of <code>transactions</code>, write a query to find the average quantity of each product purchased per transaction each year.</p>

<p>The output should include the year, product_id, and average quantity of the product purchased per transaction that year. The output table should be sorted by year and product_id in ascending order. The value for avg_quantity should be rounded to two decimal places.</p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong>
<code>transactions</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>product_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>quantity</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>year</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>product_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>avg_quantity</code></td>
<td>DECIMAL</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Find the average yearly purchases for each product

Average Quantity

<p>Let’s say that your company is running a standard control and variant AB test on a feature to increase conversion rates on the landing page. The PM checks the results and finds a .04 p-value.</p>

<p>How would you assess the validity of the result?</p>


How would you assess the validity of the result?

Experiment Validity

A/B Testing

<p>Write a query to identify the manager with the biggest team size.</p>

<p>You may assume there is only one manager with the largest team size.</p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>employees</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>manager_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>managers</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>team</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>manager</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>team_size</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Manager Team Sizes

<p>Let’s say we have a table with an <code>id</code> and <code>name</code> fields. The table holds over 100 million rows and we want to sample a random row in the table without throttling the database.</p>

<p>Write a query to randomly sample a row from this table.</p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>big_table</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Write a query to randomly sample a row from a big table.

Random SQL Sample

<p>Given two tables:  <code>accounts</code>, and <code>downloads</code>, find the average number of downloads for free vs paying accounts, broken down by day.</p>

<p><em>Note: You only need to consider accounts that have had at least one download before when calculating the average.</em></p>

<p><em>Note: round <code>average_downloads</code> to 2 decimal places.</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>accounts</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>account_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>paying_customer</code></td>
<td>BOOLEAN</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>downloads</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>column</th>
<th>type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>account_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>download_date</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>downloads</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>download_date</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>paying_customer</code></td>
<td>BOOLEAN</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>average_downloads</code></td>
<td>FLOAT</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Write a query to find the average downloads for free vs paying accounts by day, rounded to 2 decimals

Download Facts

<p>Write a query to create a new table, named flight routes, that displays unique pairs of two locations.</p>

<p><em>Note: Duplicate pairs from the <code>flights</code> table, such as Dallas to Seattle and Seattle to Dallas, should have one entry in the flight routes table.</em></p>

<h3>Schema</h3>

<p><code>flights</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>source_location</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>destination_location</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>destination_one</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>destination_two</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<h3>Example</h3>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><strong><code>flights</code> table</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>id</th>
<th>source_location</th>
<th>destination_location</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Seattle, WA</td>
<td>Dallas, TX</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Dallas, TX</td>
<td>Seattle, WA</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>Seattle, WA</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td>
<td>Dallas, TX</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td>
<td>Portland, OR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td>Seattle, WA</td>
<td>Dallas, TX</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td>Portland, OR</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td>
<td>Los Angeles, CA</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>destination_one</th>
<th>destination_two</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Dallas, TX</td>
<td>Seattle, WA</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Portland, OR</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td>
<td>Seattle, WA</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Dallas, TX</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>Los Angeles, CA</td>
<td>San Francisco, CA</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Flight Records

<p>Let’s say we have two tables, <code>transactions</code> and <code>products</code>. Hypothetically the <code>transactions</code> table consists of over a billion rows of purchases bought by users.</p>

<p>We are trying to find paired products that are often purchased together by the same user, such as wine and bottle openers, chips and beer, etc..</p>

<p>Write a query to find the top five paired products and their names.</p>

<p><em>Notes:</em>
   <em>For the purposes of satisfying the test case, p2 should be the item that comes first in the alphabet.</em>
   <em>The <code>qty</code> column represents paired products count</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>transactions</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>product_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>quantity</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>products</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>price</code></td>
<td>FLOAT</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>p1</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>p2</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>qty</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Paired Products

<p>There are two tables. One table is called <code>swipes</code> that holds a row for every Tinder swipe and contains a boolean column that determines if the swipe was a right or left swipe called <code>is_right_swipe</code>. The second is a table named <code>variants</code> that determines which user has which variant of an AB test.</p>

<p>Write a SQL query to output the average number of right swipes for two different variants of a feed ranking algorithm by comparing users that have swiped 10, 50, and 100 swipes in a <code>feed_change</code> experiment.</p>

<p><em>Note: Users have to have swiped at least 10 times to be included in the subset of users to analyze the mean number of right swipes.</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>variants</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>experiment</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>variant</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>swipes</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>swiped_user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>is_right_swipe</code></td>
<td>BOOLEAN</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>variant</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>mean_right_swipes</code></td>
<td>FLOAT</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>swipe_threshold</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>num_users</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Write a SQL query to find the average number of right swipes for different ranking algorithms.

Swipe Precision

<p>Write a query to show the number of users, number of transactions placed, and total order amount per month in the year 2020. Assume that we are only interested in the monthly reports for a single year (January-December).</p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>transactions</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>product_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>quantity</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>products</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>price</code></td>
<td>FLOAT</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><code>users</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>sex</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>month</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>num_customers</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>num_orders</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>order_amt</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Write a query to show the number of users, transactions, and total order amount per month in 2020

Monthly Customer Report

<p>Given a table with event logs, find the top five users with the longest continuous streak of visiting the platform.</p>

<p><em>Note: A continuous streak counts if the user visits the platform at least once per day on consecutive days.</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>events</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th><code>Column</code></th>
<th><code>Type</code></th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>created_at</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>url</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th><code>Column</code></th>
<th><code>Type</code></th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>streak_length</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Longest Streak Users

<p>Given a string, write a function <code>recurring_char</code> to find its first recurring character. Return <code>None</code> if there is no recurring character.</p>

<p>Treat upper and lower case letters as distinct characters.</p>

<p>You may assume the input string includes no spaces.</p>

<p><strong>Example 1:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nb">input</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&#34;interviewquery&#34;</span>
</span></span></code></pre>

<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">output</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&#34;i&#34;</span>
</span></span></code></pre>

<p><strong>Example 2:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nb">input</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&#34;interv&#34;</span>
</span></span></code></pre>

<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">output</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">None</span>
</span></span></code></pre>


<p>Let’s say you work at an advertising firm. You have a table of users’ impressions of ad campaigns over time. Each <code>impression_id</code> consists of values of user engagement specified by <code>Excited</code>, <code>OK</code>, and <code>Bored</code>.</p>

<p>Write a query to find all users who were at some point “Excited” and have never been “Bored” with a campaign.</p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>ad_impressions</code> table:</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>dt</code></td>
<td>DATETIME</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>campaign_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>impression_id</code></td>
<td>TEXT</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>user_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Write a query to find all users that were at some point "Excited" and have never been "Bored" with a campaign.

Always Excited Users

<p>A jar holds 1000 coins. Out of all of the coins, 999 are fair and one is double-sided with two heads. Picking a coin at random, you toss the coin ten times.</p>

<p>Given that you see 10 heads, what is the probability that the coin is double headed and the probability that the next toss of the coin is also a head?</p>


Compute the probability the coin is double headed and the probability the next toss is a head given 10 heads

Jars and Coins

Probability

<p>Write a function <code>compute_deviation</code> that takes in a list of dictionaries with a key and list of integers and returns a dictionary with the standard deviation of each list.</p>

<p><em>Note: This should be done without using the NumPy built-in functions.</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nb">input</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">    <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">        <span class="s1">&#39;key&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">&#39;list1&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">        <span class="s1">&#39;values&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">],</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">    <span class="p">},</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">    <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">        <span class="s1">&#39;key&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">&#39;list2&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">        <span class="s1">&#39;values&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">34</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">40</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">9</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">],</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">    <span class="p">}</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span></code></pre>

<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">output</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s1">&#39;list1&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mf">1.12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;list2&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mf">14.19</span><span class="p">}</span>
</span></span></code></pre>


<p>To finish a class, students must pass four exams (exam ids: 1,2,3 and 4).</p>

<p>Given a table <code>exam_scores</code> containing the data about all of the exams that students took, form a new table to track the scores for each student.</p>

<p><em>Note: Students took each exam only once.</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p>For the given input:</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th><code>student_id</code></th>
<th><code>student_name</code></th>
<th><code>exam_id</code></th>
<th><code>score</code></th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>100</td>
<td><code>Anna</code></td>
<td>1</td>
<td>71</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>100</td>
<td><code>Anna</code></td>
<td>2</td>
<td>72</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>100</td>
<td><code>Anna</code></td>
<td>3</td>
<td>73</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>100</td>
<td><code>Anna</code></td>
<td>4</td>
<td>74</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>101</td>
<td><code>Brian</code></td>
<td>1</td>
<td>65</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>the expected output should be:</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th><code>student_name</code></th>
<th><code>exam_1</code></th>
<th><code>exam_2</code></th>
<th><code>exam_3</code></th>
<th><code>exam_4</code></th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>Anna</code></td>
<td>71</td>
<td>72</td>
<td>73</td>
<td>74</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>Brian</code></td>
<td>65</td>
<td>NULL</td>
<td>NULL</td>
<td>NULL</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>exam_scores</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>student_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>student_name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>exam_id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>score</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>student_name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>exam_1</code></td>
<td>INT</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>exam_2</code></td>
<td>INT</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>exam_3</code></td>
<td>INT</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>exam_4</code></td>
<td>INT</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


List out the exams sources of each student in MySQL

Exam Scores

<p>How would you explain what a p-value is to someone who is not technical?</p>


<p>What does a p-value in a statistical test represent?</p>

What does a p-value in a statistical test represent?

P-value to a Layman I

<p>In a statistical test, how does a low p-value (less than 0.05) influence our decision about the null hypothesis?</p>

In a statistical test, how does a low p-value (less than 0.05) influence our decision about the null hypothesis?

P-value to a Layman II

<p>As a data analyst in a fitness app company, you are tasked with analyzing the user’s daily step count.</p>

<p>Write a SQL query to calculate the 3-day rolling average of steps for each user, rounded to the nearest whole number.</p>

<p><strong><em>Notes:</em></strong> <em>The rolling average should only be calculated for days where there are 3 previous days of step counts, including the current day. The first 2 days for any user should be excluded.</em></p>

<p><strong>Example:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Input:</strong></p>

<p><code>daily_steps</code> table</p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>id</td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>user_id</td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>steps</td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>date</td>
<td>DATE</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>user_id</td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>date</td>
<td>DATE</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>avg_steps</td>
<td>FLOAT</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


Calculate the 3-day rolling average of steps for each user.

Rolling Average Steps

<p>You are tasked with keeping track of a customer’s addresses in your database.</p>

<p>However, customer’s addresses change whenever they move. We want to keep track of their moving history as well as the person that moves in afterwards.</p>

<p>How would you create or modify a schema to keep track of these address changes?</p>


<p>Say you are tasked with designing a data mart or data warehouse for a new online retailer.</p>

<p>How would you design the system?</p>

<p><em>Note: Sketch a star schema to explain your design.</em></p>


Challenge

<div><h2>Senior Product Manager, Member Growth</h2><p>At Spring Health, we're on a mission to revolutionize mental healthcare by removing every barrier that prevents people from getting the help they need, when they need it. Our clinically validated technology, Precision Mental Healthcare, empowers us to deliver the right care at the right timewhether it's therapy, coaching, medication, or beyondtailored to each individual's needs.</p><p>We proudly partner with over 450 companies, from startups to multinational Fortune 500 corporations, as a leading provider of mental health service, providing care for 10 million people. Our clients include brands you use and know like Microsoft, Target, and Delta Airlines, all of whom trust us to deliver best-in-class outcomes for their employees globally. With our innovative platform, we've been able to generate a net positive ROI for employers and we are the only company in our category to earn external validation of net savings for customers.</p><p>We have raised capital from prominent investors including Generation Investment, Kinnevik, Tiger Global, Northzone, RRE Ventures, and many more. Thanks to their partnership and our latest Series E Funding, our current valuation has reached $3.3 billion. We're just getting startedjoin us on our journey to make mental healthcare accessible to everyone, everywhere.</p><p>We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our acquisition and activation strategy, with a particular focus on care continuity for higher-acuity members. Reporting to the Senior Director of Product, Member Growth, you will operate at the intersection of growth strategy, clinical care models, and product execution, shaping how Spring Health scales program impact through data-driven iteration, experimentation, and system-level thinking.</p><p>This is a hybrid role based in New York City, with an expectation to be in office 2-3 days a week. Our office is located at 60 Madison Avenue.</p><p>What you'll be doing:</p><ul><li>Contribute to our mission to eliminate every barrier to mental healthcare for our members.</li><li>Define and own growth KPIs for acquisition and activation, ensuring metrics reflect both business outcomes and clinical intent.</li><li>Identify, prioritize, and test growth levers across the member journey, with a focus on acquisition and activation for higher-acuity members.</li><li>Build and maintain a continuous experimentation roadmap, partnering with data, design, engineering, data science, marketing, and clinical teams to rapidly design ethical, clinically sound tests that drive measurable impact.</li><li>Organize cross-functional teams to ship, measure, and iterate on member-facing experiences and internal workflows that remove friction from care engagement.</li><li>Use qualitative insights, behavioral data, and experimentation results to continuously refine strategy and prioritization.</li><li>Conduct market analysis to identify and apply new techniques to reach and engage members across a wide range of populations.</li><li>Autonomously leverage data to inform product decisions, measure effectiveness, and iterate.</li><li>Develop high-quality documentation & artifacts to ensure clarity for cross-functional partners and stakeholders.</li><li>Guide product development lifecycle at every stage, optimizing processes and rituals that help the team thrive.</li></ul><p>What success looks like in this role:</p><ul><li>Meet or exceed targets for utilization and revenue for Specialty Care.</li><li>A clear, data-informed growth roadmap that aligns clinical priorities with measurable engagement and retention improvements.</li><li>Foster a team culture of high-velocity experimentation and continuous improvement.</li><li>Cross-functional teams are aligned on what growth means and how it's measured.</li><li>Your work meaningfully contributes to both member outcomes and business impact without compromising care quality.</li></ul><p>What you'll bring:</p><ul><li>5+ years of consumer-facing product management experience, with a track record of driving user growth.</li><li>Strong analytical skills and experience with data-driven decision making.</li><li>Expert-level experimentation skills, including hypothesis generation, A/B testing, results analysis, and iterative development.</li><li>Experience working with cross-channel customer marketing platforms and A/B testing tools.</li><li>Exceptional communication, organizational, and collaboration skills.</li><li>Passion for mental health and a commitment to improving access to care.</li><li>Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.</li></ul><p>Preferred qualifications:</p><ul><li>Healthcare / health tech or benefits tech experience</li><li>Hypergrowth start-up experience</li><li>Fluency with Looker, Mixpanel, Iterable, and/or Eppo</li></ul><p>The target base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $202,400, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including equity and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using Radford Global Compensation Database at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.</p><p>Benefits provided by Spring Health:</p><ul><li>Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring. You and your dependents also receive access to One Medical accounts HSA and FSA plans are also available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs, depending on your plan type.</li><li>Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% for retirement planning</li><li>A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents.</li><li>We offer competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave and company holidays.</li><li>At 6 months tenure with Spring, we offer parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.</li><li>Access to Noom, a weight management programbased in psychology, that's tailored to your unique needs and goals.</li><li>Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses.</li><li>Access to Wellhub, which connects employees to the best options for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription</li><li>Access to BrightHorizons, which provides sponsored child care, back-up care, and elder care</li><li>Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year.</li><li>$200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes.</li></ul><p>Not sure if you meet every requirement? Research shows that women and people from historically underrepresented communities often hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet every qualification compared to other similarly-qualified candidates. At Spring Health, we are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels valued, empowered, and supported to Thrive. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply.</p><p>Ready to do the most impactful work of your life? Learn more about our values, what it's like to work here, and how hypergrowth meets impact at Spring Health: Our Values</p><p>Our privacy policy: https://springhealth.com/privacy-policy/</p><p>Spring Health is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable legal requirements. Spring Health is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.</p></div>

<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div><div><strong>Our mission: to eliminate every barrier to mental health.</strong><strong><br /></strong><p>At Spring Health, we're on a mission to revolutionize mental healthcare by removing every barrier that prevents people from getting the help they need, when they need it. Our clinically validated technology,<strong> </strong><strong>Precision Mental Healthcare</strong>, empowers us to deliver the right care at the right time—whether it's therapy, coaching, medication, or beyond—tailored to each individual's needs.</p><p>We proudly partner with over 450 companies, from startups to multinational Fortune 500 corporations, as a leading provider of mental health service, providing care for 10 million people. Our clients include brands you use and know like Microsoft, Target, and Delta Airlines, all of whom trust us to deliver best-in-class outcomes for their employees globally. With our innovative platform, we've been able to generate a <strong>net positive ROI</strong> for employers and we are the only company in our category to earn <strong>external validation</strong> of net savings for customers.</p><p>We have raised capital from prominent investors including Generation Investment, Kinnevik, Tiger Global, Northzone, RRE Ventures, and many more. Thanks to their partnership and our latest Series E Funding, our current valuation has reached $3.3 billion. We're just getting started—join us on our journey to make mental healthcare accessible to everyone, everywhere.</p></div><p>Reporting to the VP of Product, New Ventures, the Senior Product Manager will own the end-to-end user onboarding and retention funnel for a new product within Spring Health — from first touch through long-term engagement. This role is the connective tissue between marketing, data, engineering, and design, with accountability for the experiences and campaigns that turn awareness into activated, retained users. </p><p>Please note that this is a <strong>hybrid role based in New York City</strong>, with an expectation to be in the office 2–3 days per week at our 60 Madison Avenue location. Candidates must be based in the NYC metro area or able to relocate independently within 90 days of their start date. Occasional travel will be required for team on-sites. </p><p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p><ul><li>Own the onboarding funnel from invitation through app download, signup, and first session completion — obsessing over every drop-off point and testing your way to improvement</li><li>Design and optimize the new user onboarding experience, ensuring users reach their first meaningful moment of value as quickly as possible</li><li>Build and manage retention tactics across SMS, email, and push — continuously testing for impact</li><li>Define and prioritize the product roadmap for conversion and retention features in close partnership with engineering and design</li><li>Synthesize funnel analytics, user research, and qualitative signals into a clear picture of what's working, what isn't, and what to do next</li><li>Flex across the product organization as needed, contributing to adjacent squads and org-wide initiatives</li><li>Ensure product messaging and lifecycle communications reflect the product's voice and value proposition</li></ul><p><strong>What success looks like:</strong></p><ul><li>Measurable improvement in the rate at which new users complete core onboarding steps within their first week</li><li>Improvement in user retention at the 4-week and 3-month marks, tracked cohort over cohort</li><li>Increased conversion rate from initial app invite or marketing email to registered, active user</li><li>Reduction in time-to-first-value for new users (the point at which a user completes their first meaningful in-app action)</li><li>Consistent delivery of lifecycle marketing experiments with clear documentation of results and learnings</li><li>High-quality, on-brand retention communications shipped on schedule with measurable engagement lift</li></ul><p><strong>What you'll bring:</strong></p><ul><li>5+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years focused on growth, acquisition, or retention</li><li>Deep fluency in funnel analytics — you know how to set up measurement, read data critically, and design experiments that produce signal</li><li>Hands-on experience with lifecycle marketing channels (email, SMS, push) including working knowledge of segmentation, A/B testing, and copywriting</li><li>Comfort working across systems — you're not precious about tooling and can navigate a scrappy, fast-moving tech stack</li><li>Strong written communication skills; experience writing creative briefs or AI prompts a plus</li><li>Ability to balance brand sensibility with performance instincts — you care about how the product feels, not just how it converts</li><li>Experience in a D2C product environment is a plus but not required</li><li>Startup or high-growth company experience strongly preferred</li></ul><p><em>The target base salary range for this position is <strong>$150,000 - $202,400</strong>, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including equity and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using <strong>Radford Global Compensation Database</strong><strong> </strong>at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.</em></p><strong>Benefits provided by Spring Health:</strong><p><strong>Note</strong>: We have even more benefits than listed here and below, your recruiter will provide more in-depth information as you continue in the interview process. Benefits are subject to individual plan requirements and eligibility criteria. <em><br /></em></p><ul><li>Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring. You and your dependents also receive access to <strong>One Medical</strong><strong> </strong>accounts HSA and FSA plans are also available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs, depending on your plan type.</li><li>Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% for retirement planning</li><li>A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents.</li><li>We offer competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave and company holidays.</li><li>At 6 months tenure with Spring, we offer parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.</li><li>Access to <strong>Noom</strong><strong>, </strong>a weight management program—based in psychology, that's tailored to your unique needs and goals. </li><li>Access to fertility care support through <strong>Carrot</strong>, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses.</li><li>Access to<strong> </strong><strong>Wellhub</strong>, which connects employees to the best options for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription</li><li>Access to <strong>BrightHorizons</strong>, which provides sponsored child care, back-up care, and elder care</li><li>Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year.</li><li>$200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes.</li></ul><div><p><strong>Not sure if you meet every requirement?</strong> Research shows that women and people from historically underrepresented communities often hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet every qualification compared to other similarly-qualified candidates. At Spring Health, we are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels valued, empowered, and supported to Thrive. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply.</p><p><strong>Ready to do the most impactful work of your life? Learn more about our values, what it's like to work here, and how hypergrowth meets impact at Spring Health:</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Our Values</strong></p><p><strong><em>Our privacy policy: </em></strong><strong><em><span class="long-word">https://springhealth.com/privacy</span>-policy/</em></strong></p><p><em>Spring Health is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable legal requirements. Spring Health is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.</em></p></div></div></div>

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