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Data Analysis and Insight Generation Questions

Ability to convert raw data into clear, evidence based business insights and prioritized recommendations. Candidates should demonstrate end to end analytical thinking including data cleaning and validation, exploratory analysis, summary statistics, distributions, aggregations, pivot tables, time series and trend analysis, segmentation and cohort analysis, anomaly detection, and interpretation of relationships between metrics. This topic covers hypothesis generation and validation, basic statistical testing, controlled experiments and split testing, sensitivity and robustness checks, and sense checking results against domain knowledge. It emphasizes connecting metrics to business outcomes, defining success criteria and measurement plans, synthesizing quantitative and qualitative evidence, and prioritizing recommendations based on impact feasibility risk and dependencies. Practical communication skills are assessed including charting dashboards crafting concise narratives and tailoring findings to non technical and technical stakeholders, along with documenting next steps experiments and how outcomes will be measured.

HardTechnical
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Given an orders table with hundreds of millions of rows, write an efficient SQL pattern to compute a rolling 30-day retention rate per signup cohort, where cohort is based on signup_date bucketed by month. Explain indexing/partitioning strategies and how you'd materialize intermediate results to make this query scale for daily dashboard refreshes.
MediumTechnical
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A daily scheduled ETL job failed overnight and a production revenue dashboard shows zeros. Walk through the troubleshooting steps you would take in the first 60 minutes: what logs, metrics, and checks you run, who you notify, and how you decide whether to re-run, rollback or escalate.
HardSystem Design
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Design a real-time anomaly detection architecture for monitoring 50 business metrics across regions. Include streaming ingestion, feature computation (rolling stats), hybrid statistical and ML detectors, alerting logic with prioritized triage, methods to calibrate false positives, and how to store incidents and feedback for model retraining.
EasyTechnical
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Given these tables:
customers(customer_id INT, signup_date DATE)orders(order_id INT, customer_id INT, order_date DATE, quantity INT, price NUMERIC)
Write a SQL query to return the top 5 customers by lifetime revenue (sum of quantity * price) in the past 365 days and include only customers who placed at least 3 orders in that period. Describe assumptions about time zones and null values.
HardTechnical
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You're running a multivariate experiment testing three features simultaneously with potential interactions. Explain how to analyze results, adjust for multiple comparisons (e.g., Bonferroni, Benjamini-Hochberg), and describe how to interpret interaction terms. Discuss trade-offs between speed of testing and false-discovery control.

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