Looking for SAS Interview Questions

[Hakob]

Hello!

I hope this message finds you well.

I am preparing for upcoming interviews and would really appreciate your help. If you have come across tricky or interesting SAS questions in your own interview experience — whether as a candidate or as an interviewer — I would be grateful if you could share them here.

This will help me (and hopefully others too) get better prepared for the types of questions that can come up.

Thank you very much for your time and support!

Best regards,
Hakob

[Quentin · Accepted solution]

One general question I like, as an interviewer, is "what do you dislike about SAS?" or "If you were Jim Goodnight, what feature would you add to SAS?"  Those sorts of open-ended, critical questions aren't programming knowledge questions, but they help show how a candidate understands SAS, and how much they've thought about the SAS language.

[Hakob]

Thank you for sharing that! I completely agree — open-ended questions like those really highlight how deeply someone has thought about SAS and its ecosystem, not just the coding details. They’re a great way to see a candidate’s critical perspective and creativity.

[SASKiwi]

On the flip side, I'd avoid employers who ask you to solve SAS compatency challenges which you rarely if ever do in practice. 

[Hakob]

I completely agree with you. Those types of challenges don’t really reflect what we do in practice. At this point, I’m mainly focused on collecting the more common and practical questions that usually come up during interviews.