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Business Intelligence Background Questions

A summary of business intelligence experience including the BI platforms and tools used, types of dashboards and reports built, data volumes and sources, analytical methods, stakeholder consumption patterns, and measurable business outcomes. Candidates should explain how BI efforts influenced decisions, examples of ETL or modeling work, and any leadership or ownership of BI initiatives.

HardTechnical
22 practiced
Explain how you would implement version control and CI for BI artifacts: SQL models, Looker models, Tableau workbooks, and Power BI reports. Include considerations for branching, automated tests, and deployment to production.
MediumTechnical
38 practiced
Explain cohort analysis and provide an example use case for product retention. Describe how you would implement cohort queries in SQL and visualize them in a dashboard.
HardTechnical
24 practiced
Design a data quality framework and set of automated tests for a critical sales pipeline ETL. Include examples of tests (row counts, null thresholds, referential integrity), how you implement them (dbt tests, custom SQL), and how failures should be surfaced and remediated.
MediumTechnical
29 practiced
Implement a SQL-based method (pseudocode or ANSI SQL) to detect duplicate user accounts within a users table that may be caused by email case variations and leading/trailing whitespace. Show how to flag probable duplicates for manual review.
EasyBehavioral
22 practiced
Describe your overall Business Intelligence background. Include which BI platforms and tools you've used (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker), the types of dashboards and reports you built, typical data sources and volumes you worked with, and one concrete measurable business outcome your BI work enabled.

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