SQL Interview Question: Get 2nd Most Recent Activity (Asked in FAANG!)

🔍 SQL Interview Question: Get the 2nd Most Recent Activity
This question has been asked in real interviews at companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Netflix. In this tutorial, we'll walk through how to write a clean and efficient SQL query to fetch the second most recent activity for each user — a common pattern in data engineering interviews.

✅ What you'll learn:

SQL window functions (RANK, DENSE_RANK, ROW_NUMBER)

Best practices for solving real-world SQL interview problems

How to approach “Top N per group” style queries

How Big Tech evaluates SQL logic and efficiency

💡 Perfect for aspiring Data Engineers, Data Analysts, and Backend Developers preparing for FAANG-level interviews.

📌 Tools: SQL (PostgreSQL syntax), real-world example
🎯 Difficulty: Intermediate

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