Rubric for Technical Questions

Use this rubric to evaluate responses to SQL, Excel, statistics, data visualization, and other technical questions typically asked in interviews.

Rubric

Examples

Now, let’s see this rubric in action! Given the prompt:

"Write a SQL query to calculate total revenue per customer."

Here are some examples of weak to strong responses:

While we’re using a SQL example here, the rubric applies broadly to other technical questions, whether you’re interpreting data, creating visualizations, or performing statistical analysis.