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Airbnb Airbnb Interview Question 06

Host
Activity
Consistency

Find hosts who had bookings in 3 consecutive months.

Table Schema

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Table

interactive
ColumnType
host_idinteger
booking_datedate

Sample Data

Input
Output

Sample Input: bookings
host_idbooking_date
2012024-01-01
2012024-02-01
2012024-03-01
2022024-01-01
2022024-03-01
2032024-02-01
Expected Output
host_id
201

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host_id
201

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Hint 01: Identify the grouping level required by the output.
Hint 02: Aggregate with COUNT, SUM, AVG, or a window function as needed.
Hint 03: Filter after aggregation with HAVING or after ranking with an outer query.

Solution

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WITH months AS (
  SELECT DISTINCT host_id, DATE_TRUNC('month', booking_date) AS month
  FROM bookings
),
streaks AS (
  SELECT
    host_id,
    month - (ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY host_id ORDER BY month) * INTERVAL '1 month') AS streak_group
  FROM months
)
SELECT host_id
FROM streaks
GROUP BY host_id, streak_group
HAVING COUNT(*) >= 3;

Explanation

Step By
Step

01

Read the expected output columns to determine the final grain.

02

Aggregate or rank the input rows to calculate the requested metric.

03

Filter, sort, and alias the final columns to match the output.

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