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Experimentation Strategy and Advanced Designs Questions

When and how to use advanced experimental methods and how to prioritize experiments to maximize learning and business impact. Candidates should understand factorial and multivariate designs interaction effects blocking and stratification sequential testing and adaptive designs and the trade offs between running many factors at once versus sequential A and B tests in terms of speed power and interpretability. The topic includes Bayesian and frequentist analysis choices techniques for detecting heterogeneous treatment effects and methods to control for multiple comparisons. At the strategy level candidates should be able to estimate expected impact effort confidence and reach for proposed experiments apply prioritization frameworks to select experiments and reason about parallelization limits resource constraints tooling and monitoring. Candidates should also be able to communicate complex experimental results recommend staged follow ups and design experiments to answer higher order questions about interactions and heterogeneity.

MediumTechnical
52 practiced
When should you prefer regression adjustment (ANCOVA) over CUPED or vice versa? Describe the assumptions behind ANCOVA and show, at a high level, how including covariates in the analysis can increase power without changing randomization.
MediumTechnical
52 practiced
You're evaluating replacing some A/B tests with multi-armed bandits to improve cumulative revenue. Compare Thompson Sampling, UCB, and epsilon-greedy re: regret, implementation complexity, and suitability for conversion vs monetary metrics. Under what conditions would you still prefer a traditional A/B test?
MediumSystem Design
76 practiced
Design a monitoring and guardrail system for live experiments. List the key automated checks (e.g., Sample Ratio Mismatch, unusual lift patterns, backend errors), appropriate alert thresholds, how to avoid false alarms due to peeking, and who should be notified for different alert severities.
EasyTechnical
58 practiced
Give three real-world examples where the Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption (SUTVA) is violated in product experiments and propose one mitigation strategy for each example.
MediumTechnical
60 practiced
Design a 2x2 factorial experiment to test a pricing change (A vs B) and a UX layout change (old vs new) on purchase conversion. You have 100k daily eligible users, baseline conversion 2%, target power 80%, alpha 0.05. Describe how you would allocate traffic, compute sample size per cell, analyze main effects and interaction, and present results to stakeholders.

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