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DICK'S Sporting Goods Data Scientist Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a DICK'S Sporting Goods Data Scientist interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 4 questions + 2 drills · ~54 min
Top Three Selling Products SQLMedium
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Rank completed product sales within each DICK'S region using joins, aggregation, and ROW_NUMBER().

JoinsRankingAggregationsDICK'S Sporting Goods
SQL and Python Data WorkMedium

Evaluates your end-to-end data manipulation skills across SQL and Python.

sqlpythonDICK'S Sporting Goods
SQL: Store Performance and MarginHard
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Join CVS store, sales, and inventory data to calculate margin, rank stores, and flag underperforming locations.

JoinsGroup ByAggregationsCVS HealthDICK'S Sporting GoodsWalmart
Top-N Products With Window FunctionsEasy
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Find DICK'S top three products by units sold during the last 30 calendar days using filtering and aggregation.

Window FunctionsDate FunctionsRankingDICK'S Sporting GoodsArtefact
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Machine Learning11 questions · ~94 min
Churn Features From LogsMedium

Evaluates feature engineering choices for churn prediction from transactional data.

Cross-ValidationFeature EngineeringSupervised LearningDICK'S Sporting Goods
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More topics6 questions · ~51 min
Choose the Right Evaluation MetricMedium

Choose the best metric for a business goal and explain the trade-offs between precision, recall, F1, and threshold choice.

F1 ScorePrecisionAccuracyDICK'S Sporting Goods
Handle Limited, Vague InputsHard

Evaluates your approach to uncertainty, scoping, and decision-making when requirements are unclear.

supply chainDICK'S Sporting Goods
NLP Problems You SolvedMedium

Assesses your ability to apply NLP techniques to solve practical problems.

DICK'S Sporting Goods
Deploy and Monitor ModelsMedium

Tests production ML practices including monitoring, maintenance, and operational reliability.

InfrastructureETLQualityDICK'S Sporting Goods
Recommendation Engine With No SalesHard

Tests cold-start recommendation strategies using side information and practical ranking logic.

User NeedsMVPProduct VisionDICK'S Sporting Goods
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