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Ownership and Project Delivery Questions

This topic assesses a candidate's ability to take ownership of problems and projects and to drive them through end to end delivery to measurable impact. Candidates should be prepared to describe concrete examples in which they defined goals and success metrics, scoped and decomposed work, prioritized features and trade offs, made timely decisions with incomplete information, and executed through implementation, launch, monitoring, and iteration. It covers bias for action and initiative such as identifying opportunities, removing blockers, escalating appropriately, and operating with autonomy or limited oversight. It also includes technical ownership and execution where candidates explain technical problem solving, architecture and implementation choices, incident response and remediation, and collaboration with engineering and product partners. Interviewers evaluate stakeholder management and cross functional coordination, risk identification and mitigation, timeline and resource management, progress tracking and reporting, metrics and impact measurement, accountability, and lessons learned when outcomes were imperfect. Examples may span documentation or process improvements, operational projects, medium sized feature work, and complex or embedded technical efforts.

MediumTechnical
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You are assigned three analytics projects that all claim top priority but you only have capacity for one. Describe a clear method to prioritize these projects, including criteria (impact, effort, risk, dependencies), stakeholders to consult, how to negotiate scope or timelines, and how you would document and communicate the decision.
EasyTechnical
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Define 'monthly churn rate' for a subscription product with these tables: subscriptions(user_id, start_date, end_date NULLABLE) and events(user_id, event_date). Provide SQL pseudo-code to compute a monthly churn rate and explain edge cases like reactivations, short trials, and incomplete months.
MediumBehavioral
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Describe a project where initial requirements were ambiguous or stakeholders had different expectations. How did you reduce ambiguity, decide on the first deliverable, validate assumptions with limited data, and iterate while keeping stakeholders aligned?
HardTechnical
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You're deploying a new data transformation that changes a schema used by multiple dashboards. Describe a deployment plan to minimize disruption: compatibility strategies (additive changes), migration scripts, feature flags or versioned views, end-to-end testing cadence, a rollback plan, and how you'd coordinate timing with downstream owners.
HardSystem Design
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Design an ETL architecture to support daily and near-real-time reporting for an events stream generating ~50 million events/day. Requirements: 15-minute reporting latency for critical KPIs, ability to backfill and replay, cost constraints, and failure recovery. Describe ingestion, buffering, transformation, storage, serving layer, monitoring, and trade-offs between streaming and micro-batch.

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