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Interview Core Track · Medium · 25 min

Department Highest Salary

Table: Employee +--------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +--------------+---------+ | id | int | | name | varchar | | salary | int | | departmentId ...

Interview Core Track
Medium
25 min
joins
filtering
aggregation

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Objective

Practice joins through a IshaSQL-tagged business scenario.

Approach

Use this track to improve speed, edge-case handling, and accuracy under timed conditions.

Company context

Company labels are directional practice context, not official interview guidance.

Prereq: query basics
Prereq: filtering

Table: Employee +--------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +--------------+---------+ | id | int | | name | varchar | | salary | int | | departmentId | int | +--------------+---------+ id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table. departmentId is a foreign key (reference columns) of the ID from the Department table. Each row of this table indicates the ID, name, and salary of an employee. It also contains the ID of their department. Table: Department +-------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+---------+ | id | int | | name | varchar | +-------------+---------+ id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table. It is guaranteed that department name is not NULL. Each row of this table indicates the ID of a department and its name. Write a solution to find employees who have the highest salary in each of the departments. Return the result table in any order . The result format is in the following example. Example 1: Input: Employee table: +----+-------+--------+--------------+ | id | name | salary | departmentId | +----+-------+--------+--------------+ | 1 | Joe | 70000 | 1 | | 2 | Jim | 90000 | 1 | | 3 | Henry | 80000 | 2 | | 4 | Sam | 60000 | 2 | | 5 | Max | 90000 | 1 | +----+-------+--------+--------------+ Department table: +----+-------+ | id | name | +----+-------+ | 1 | IT | | 2 | Sales | +----+-------+ Output: +------------+----------+--------+ | Department | Employee | Salary | +------------+----------+--------+ | IT | Jim | 90000 | | Sales | Henry | 80000 | | IT | Max | 90000 | +------------+----------+--------+ Explanation: Max and Jim both have the highest salary in the IT department and Henry has the highest salary in the Sales department.

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