1. What is the therapeutic area you worked earlier?

2. what are your responsibilities?

3. can you tell me something abt your last project study design?
4. how many subjects were there??
5. How many analysed data sets did u create?
6. How did you create analysed data sets?
7. How many tables, listings and graphs?
8. What do you mean by treatment emergent and treatment emergent serious adverse
events?
9. what is your involvement while using Cdisc standards? What is mean by Cdisc
where do you use it??
10. What do you mean when you say you created tables, listings and graphs for ISS
and ISE?
11. how do you do data cleaning?
12. Can you tell me CRT's??
13. Where do you use MEdDra and WHO? Can you wiirte a code.. how do you use
it?
14. what do you mean by used Macro facility to produce weekly and monthly
reports?
15. What is data integration and data pooling?
16. How did you validate tables listings and what are the other things you validated?
17. Did you see any where that.. patient is randomized to one drug and the patient is
given another drug? if you get in which population would you put that patient
into?
18. what would you do if you had to pool the data related to one parallel study and
one cross over study?
19. Say If you have a same subject in two groups taking two different drugs.. and If
you had to pool these two groups how would you do it?
20. what are the phases you are good at?
21. How would you transpose dataset using data step?
22. If some patient misses one lab how would you assign values for that missing
values?? can you write the code?
23. how do you deal with missing values?
24. did you ever create efficacy tables?
25. what is the primary and secondary end point in your last project?
26. What are the stat procedures you used?
27. tell me something abt proc mixed? (they asked me to write the code)
28. How good are you at macros? They asked me write a macro with the
specifications which they have given..
29. What would you do .. if you have to use data step functions in macro definition?
can you use all the functions in data step in macro definition?
30. They asked me to write a code for the table shell which they gave..
31. They gave i/p data set and showed me the o/p .. asked me to write the code to
produce o/p
32. If we have to create a report for different states and if there are few records for
each state... I want a report such that.. all the records for each state should be
 together.. that is in a single page.. if two states records fits in a single page then
that should be done... (he wants such that no state records shud be present in two
pages)
33. If i have a dataset with different subjid's and each subjid has many records.. how
can i obtain last but one record for each patient?
34. can you get some value of a data step variable to be used in any other program
you do later in the same sas session? how do you do that?
35. What would you do if you have to access previous records values in current
record?
36. What is a p value? why should u calculate that? what are teh procedures you can
use for that?
37. what do you usually do with proc life test?
38. can you get survival estimates with any other procedures?
39. can you write a code to get the survival estimates?
40. what is the difference between stratum and by statement in proc lifetest?
41. Which procedure do you usually use to create reports?
42. what do you do .. if you had to get the column names and some title in every page
of your report when you create it using data_null_?
43. How do you use the macro which is created by some other people and which is in
some other folder other than sas?
44. Can you tell me something regarding the macro libraries ?
45. Can you show me how the efficacy table looks like?
46. can you show me how the safety table looks like?
47. Did you use ODS?
48. ur resume says u created HTML, RTF, PDF? why u had to create three?? can you
tell me in specific why each form is used?
49. What are the graphs you created?
50. what are the procedures you used to create them?
51. they showed me one program in proc gchart and asked me how the o/p graph
looks like?
52. can you generate statistics using Proc sql?
53. When do u prefer Proc sql? give me some situation
54. How do you delete a macro variable?
55. why do u have to use proc import and proc export wizards ? give me the
situation?
56. What do you do if you have to modify already present macro? tell me the whole
procedure...
57. How do you understand the macros which are created by others??
58. how was your interaction with biostatistician?
59. Did u get any situation when you had to suggest some thing to biostatistician?
60. What is meant by unix shell scripting?
61. what kind of script did you use?what is the editor used?
62. what are the regular things which you do in unix?
63. what is the command to change the file access properties?
64. what is the command you use to search a specific file in unix?
65. when did you do this scripts? what is the use of it?
 66. How did you include any comments if you have to while writing scripts?

Make sure that you know.. CDISC, ISS, ISE, CRT, MEdDRA, WHO, LOCF, MANY TO
MANY MERGE USING DATA STEP,

Should be able to tell something about all the previous companies.. they were asking me
even .. in which street I was there while working In Takeda.. and were asking me the
managers name.. so be prepare for that.