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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Write a SQL query (ANSI SQL) to calculate, for each user and each 7-day cohort, the 14-day retention rate and the average revenue per retained user using the transactions table. Given: transactions(transaction_id, user_id, amount, occurred_at TIMESTAMP). Explain assumptions and how you'd handle users with no transactions in the window.

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Design an experimental approach to measure the causal effect of a model when the primary outcome is delayed by weeks (for example, lifetime value or subscription renewals). Discuss sample sizes, interim metrics or surrogates, bias controls, handling time-varying confounders, and analysis methods you would use (e.g., survival analysis, time-to-event, incremental metrics).

MediumSystem Design

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Design a safe rollback and model versioning strategy for a multi-region inference service that must maintain 50ms p95 latency. Explain how you'll version models, route traffic, test new versions, and roll back with minimal user impact. Include considerations for data migrations and feature compatibility.

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You have one data engineer, limited budget, and must choose between workstreams: (A) improve model accuracy by 5% with labeling, (B) build production-grade instrumentation, (C) collect a richer dataset that enables future features. Create a principled decision framework to choose which to prioritize, including a quantitative expected-value calculation and qualitative risk factors.

MediumSystem Design

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Design instrumentation and the set of metrics you would track to evaluate a new recommendation model in production. Include event-level data to capture, derived metrics for offline and online evaluation, guardrail metrics, and how you would use them to decide whether to iterate, roll back, or promote the model. Provide examples of 6-8 specific metrics.

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