Data Scientists — SQL Technical Interview

How much SQL do Data Scientists need to know? Checklist for SQL knowledge.

Kenny Kim
Towards Data Science
7 min readMar 9, 2020

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If you want to become a data scientist, you have to know SQL. SQL and data go hand in hand, so all data scientist interviews today will go through a technical interview using SQL. There will be exceptions though where they might give you the option of R or Python…

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Data Scientist @ Meta | ex-Microsoft | M.Sc. in Information Systems and B.B.A. in Accounting at the University of Washington | Always testing and learning