Background and Role Alignment Questions
Articulation of how a candidate's past skills, projects, and experiences map directly to the responsibilities and success criteria of the target role. This includes drawing explicit parallels between prior work and the job description, addressing skill gaps, and presenting a plan for rapid onboarding and impact.
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Describe a time when you had to say 'no' or renegotiate the scope with a stakeholder who requested an unrealistic analysis timeline. How did you preserve the relationship, present alternatives, and agree on a realistic outcome?
EasyTechnical
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You will support both marketing and product teams. Outline your first 30-day onboarding plan to get productive quickly. Include who you would meet (roles and questions to ask), which data sources and dashboards you'd audit, what access you need, and two quick wins you could deliver to build credibility.
MediumTechnical
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A junior analyst presents analysis that contradicts a long-held team belief. As their manager or peer reviewer, how would you evaluate the analysis, balance healthy skepticism with openness to new results, and coach the analyst to present their findings credibly?
MediumTechnical
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A cross-functional product team reports inconsistent definitions for 'active user' across dashboards. Design a practical approach to reconcile definitions, create a canonical metric specification, and get team sign-off. Include artifacts you'd produce and the stakeholders you would involve.
HardTechnical
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You must present disappointing analytics showing that a high-profile initiative failed to move KPIs. Draft how you'd structure a 10-minute executive briefing: the headline statement, 3 supporting evidence visuals or analyses, top root-cause hypotheses, recommended next steps (including experiments), and trade-offs for each recommendation.
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