Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and what drew you to data analysis?
- Which analysis you have done are you most proud of, and what impact did it have?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- How would you rate your SQL skills, and what is the most complex query problem you have solved?
- Which visualization tools have you used, and how do you decide what makes a good dashboard?
- How do you check data quality before trusting a dataset for analysis?
- Explain a time you found a data error that others had missed. How did you catch it?
- How do you define and document a business metric so different teams calculate it the same way?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time a stakeholder disagreed with your findings. How did you handle it?
- Describe a situation where you had to explain a technical concept to a non-technical audience.
- How do you prioritize when several teams request analyses at the same time?
Problem-solving / case
- Revenue dropped 8 percent last week. Walk us through how you would investigate the cause.
- A manager asks for a metric that you believe is misleading. What do you do?
- We want to measure whether a new feature improves retention. How would you set up the analysis?
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