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Foundations Track · Easy · 15 min

Employees Earning More Than Their Managers

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

Foundations Track
Easy
15 min
filtering

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Objective

Practice filtering through a IshaSQL-tagged business scenario.

Approach

Use this track to lock in clean query structure, basic filtering logic, and confidence with grouped output.

Company context

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

Prereq: query basics

Table: Employee +-------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+---------+ | id | int | | name | varchar | | salary | int | | managerId | int | +-------------+---------+ id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table. Each row of this table indicates the ID of an employee, their name, salary, and the ID of their manager. Write a solution to find the employees who earn more than their managers. Return the result table in any order . The result format is in the following example. Example 1: Input: Employee table: +----+-------+--------+-----------+ | id | name | salary | managerId | +----+-------+--------+-----------+ | 1 | Joe | 70000 | 3 | | 2 | Henry | 80000 | 4 | | 3 | Sam | 60000 | Null | | 4 | Max | 90000 | Null | +----+-------+--------+-----------+ Output: +----------+ | Employee | +----------+ | Joe | +----------+ Explanation: Joe is the only employee who earns more than his manager.

Employee
id INT PRIMARY KEY
name VARCHAR(50
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