Analytical Background Questions
The candidate's analytical skills and experience with data driven problem solving, including statistics, data analysis projects, tools and languages used, and examples of insights that influenced product or business decisions. This covers academic projects, internships, or professional analytics work and the end to end approach from hypothesis to measured result.
MediumTechnical
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Describe how you would implement automated data validation tests in CI for an analytics pipeline. Provide examples of unit-level tests, integration tests against small synthetic datasets, and threshold/regression tests for production runs. Mention tools and patterns you'd use for scheduling and reporting test results.
MediumTechnical
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A large analytics query frequently times out in your BI tool. Propose two long-term architectural solutions and two short-term mitigations to make the dashboard stable while retaining freshness. Include considerations for materialized views, pre-aggregation, caching, and cost implications.
EasyTechnical
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Define sampling and describe two sampling strategies you would use when an analyst needs rapid exploratory results on a very large dataset. For each strategy, explain bias risks and when it is appropriate.
EasyTechnical
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Given a table events(user_id STRING, event_type STRING, event_time TIMESTAMP), write a SQL query (standard SQL / BigQuery syntax) to compute Daily Active Users (DAU) in UTC for the last 30 days. Deduplicate users per day and show columns: date, dau. Explain how you'd handle users generating events in multiple time zones and late-arriving events.
HardTechnical
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Design a production drift detection system for ML features used in analytics and models. Include which statistical tests or distances you would monitor (e.g., PSI, KS-test), alert thresholds, sampling frequency, and how you would trigger automated retraining or human review. Discuss false positives and monitoring overhead.
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