14-Day Data Analyst Interview Practice Plan: Retrieval, Mocks & Weakness Repair

14-day data analyst interview practice

This is a practice system rather than another question bank. It uses timed retrieval, mock interviews, project defense, and weakness repair.

Days 1–3: SQL fundamentals and debugging

Practice filtering, aggregation, joins, CTEs, windows, dates, nulls, and deduplication. Explain why the query works.

Days 4–5: Business cases

Take an ambiguous KPI change. Define the metric, ask clarifying questions, segment the problem, and propose validation.

Day 6: Python

Practice loading, filtering, grouping, joining, missing-value handling, reshaping, and basic visualization while explaining your reasoning.

Day 7: Power BI

Review relationships, measures, filter context, dashboard design, and core DAX concepts. Explain why each visual belongs.

Days 8–9: Project defense

Prepare two projects using problem, ownership, data, approach, validation, result, trade-off, and lesson.

Day 10: Behavioral stories

Prepare evidence-based examples for ambiguity, disagreement, failure, prioritization, automation, and learning.

Days 11–12: Timed mocks

Mix SQL, a case, project questions, and behavioral questions. Review structure, clarity, and evidence.

Day 13: Weakness repair

Identify the two weakest areas from your mocks and focus on those instead of repeating what you already know.

Day 14: Full simulation

Run one complete interview without notes. Turn every slow or uncertain answer into the next revision list.

The rule

Practice retrieval and explanation, not passive reading. Interview preparation should simulate the constraints of the interview itself.

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