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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.

MediumTechnical
48 practiced
Conversion on the checkout funnel dropped 8% last week. List the top 6 hypotheses you would generate, specify the data queries or visualizations you would run to validate each hypothesis, and explain how you would prioritize the investigations based on impact and feasibility.
EasyTechnical
59 practiced
You're preparing a one-slide executive summary of an analysis showing a 12% drop in weekly active users (WAU). Produce a 2-sentence summary (context + key result), 3 bullet insights that explain potential drivers, and 2 concrete recommended next actions with success metrics to report back in two weeks.
HardSystem Design
56 practiced
You must design analytics at petabyte-scale for a product analytics platform. Describe the architecture decisions for aggregate tables, partitioning/clustering strategies, materialized views, denormalization, incremental refresh patterns, and how to handle schema evolution while keeping query latency low and cost reasonable.
MediumTechnical
56 practiced
Write an efficient SQL query to compute a rolling 7-day average of daily_active_users and add a boolean flag column that is true when the current day's value deviates by more than 20% from the rolling average. Use window functions and explain how to handle the first 6 days of the series.
MediumTechnical
55 practiced
You plan an A/B test and expect a baseline conversion rate of 2% and want to detect a 5% relative lift (i.e., delta = 0.1 percentage points). Using alpha = 0.05 and power = 0.8, describe how to compute required sample size per variant. Explain assumptions and how the sample size changes with higher desired power or smaller detectable effects.

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