I Got The Same Question in 12 Data Analyst Interviews — How To Answer
Despite being non-technical, it was a simple but critical question to test how candidates interact with and source data.
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Prior to beginning my current role, like most new graduates, after nearly two years in graduate school, I embarked on somewhere between 10–15 interviews for data analyst positions (although, for the record, I ended up working as a data engineer). While most of the questions were straightforward, I began to notice repeat inquiries, especially with reference to my portfolio. If you are interviewing for a data analyst, data scientist or data engineering position, you will instantly impress an interviewer if you can produce and concisely present a project from your portfolio.
To my surprise, after I presented a few data analysis projects, I didn’t get any questions related to the statistics or scope of information I just provided.
The question I did receive:
Where did you get your data?
It’s a simple question, but how you answer conveys to an interviewer how resourceful you are when it…
