Data Science Interview Prep Resources
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General Articles and Guides
Interviewing for your First Data Scientist Job: What to Expect and How to Prepare (Medium, 2021)
Preparation Guide for Data Science Interviews (Medium, 2020)
Tips & Tricks to Ace Data Science Interviews (podcast, Analytics Vidhya, 2019)
Ultimate Guide to Data Science Interviews (Springboard, free e-book)
Haerang’s Product Analytics Interview Prep Guide (created by Haerang Lee (MIDS ’21))
Data Science Question Sets
87 Data Science Interview Questions [2023 Prep Guide] (Springboard, 2022)
Data Analyst Interview Questions (StrataScratch, 2022)
7 Questions You Should be Ready to Answer in Any Data Science Interview (The Muse, 2021)
Most Common Data Science Interview Questions and Answers (KDnuggets, 2021)
What Top Firms Ask: 100+ Data Science Interview Questions (KDnuggets, 2017)
17 More Must-Know Data Science Interview Questions and Answers (KDnuggets, 2017)
21 Must-Know Data Science Interview Questions and Answers (KDnuggets, 2016)
Data Science Interview Questions and Detailed Answers (2016)
Learn Data Science (Quora)
Data Science Interview Guide (free sample guide available) $
SQL
SQL and Python Interview Questions for Data Analysts (KDnuggets, 2023)
Ultimate SQL Interview Guide for Data Scientists and Data Analysts (DataLemur, 2022)
The Best Medium-Hard Data Analyst SQL Interview Questions (Quip)
The SQL Tutorial for Data Analysis (Mode)
SQL Data Types (Mode)
SQL Tutorial (SQL Zoo)
How to Ace Data Science Interviews: SQL (by MIDS alum Carson Forter, Medium, 2017)
Statistics
How to Ace Data Science Interviews: Statistics (by MIDS alum Carson Forter, Medium, 2017)
40 Probability & Statistics Data Science Interview Questions Asked by FANG & Wall Street (DataLemur)
Coding
SQL and Python Interview Questions for Data Analysts (KDnuggets, 2023)
15 Python Coding Interview Questions You Must Know for Data Science (KDnuggets, 2022)
How to Ace the Data Science Coding Challenge (KDnuggets, 2020)
How to Ace Data Science Interviews: R & Python (by MIDS alum Carson Forter, Medium, 2018)
A/B Testing
Answers to the 19 Most Frequently Asked Questions About A/B Testing (HubSpot, 2019)
A/B Testing Interview Questions (TutorialsPoint)
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updated 05/09/2023
Machine Learning
51 Essential Machine Learning Interview Questions and Answers (Springboard, 2022)
Acing the ML Portion of McKinsey Data Science Interviews (Medium, 2022)
ML Interviews Book (Chip Huyen, free e-book, 2021)
Deep Learning Interviews: Real-World Deep Learning Interview Problems and Solutions, 2nd ed. (Shlomo Kashani, PDF bk, 2020)
How to Explain Key Machine Learning Algorithms at an Interview (KDnuggets, 2020)
Machine Learning Flashcards $
Practice Platforms
HackerRank (free coding practice)
Pramp (free online peer-to-peer interview practice)
DataLemur (free data science, SQL, statistics, and machine learning questions)
Interview Warmup (free AI-powered audio interviewing tool by Google)
Big Interview (free AI-powered video interviewing tool available via UC Berkeley Career Center; technical & non-technical)
Project Euler (free math and programming problems)
Leetcode (coding practice - free basic version; paid premium subscription available) $
StrataScratch (data science coding - free basic version; paid premium subscription available) $
Educative (over 600 courses and hands-on coding on programming, cloud computing, data science, machine learning) $
Exponent (interactive lessons and peer mock interview matching for data science, ML, product mgt interviews) $
Interview Query (adaptive learning platform for data science, data analyst, ML, data engineering interviews) $
Online Question Banks
CareerCup
Glassdoor Interviews
Books
Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell $
Ace the Data Science Interview: 201 Real Interview Questions asked by FAANG, Tech Startups, and Wall Street by Nick Singh $
I School Slack Channels
#tech-screen-practice
#interview-questions
#tech-screen-practice-studygroup
#tech-mock-interview-meetup
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updated 05/09/2023