Research Tools and Platforms Proficiency Questions
Demonstrate proficiency with research tools and platforms commonly used at FAANG companies: user research platforms (Validately, UserTesting, Respondent), analytics tools (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude), survey tools (Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey), and analysis software (NVivo, ATLAS.ti, or custom analysis approaches). Be prepared to discuss tool selection based on research needs.
MediumTechnical
41 practiced
You must run a remote moderated usability test with participants across the EU. Describe the consent, recording, storage, and retention decisions you need to make to comply with GDPR. Include at least two technical controls you would configure in your testing and storage tools (e.g., retention windows, encryption).
EasyTechnical
40 practiced
You receive raw survey data in a spreadsheet with columns for respondent_id, timestamp, age, country, and 20 Likert questions. Describe, step-by-step, how you'd use pivot tables (or spreadsheet functions) to produce a concise executive table showing mean scores per question segmented by country and a count of complete responses per country.
EasyTechnical
24 practiced
How would you structure Jira (or Azure DevOps) to manage the lifecycle of research studies across a product org? Describe issue types, workflows, required fields, templates, and a dashboard metric set to track research velocity and impact.
MediumTechnical
30 practiced
You receive a large survey export and notice many low-effort responses. Describe 6 concrete cleaning steps you'd perform in code or spreadsheet to detect and remove bots and low-quality responses (e.g., straight-lining, very short response times). For each, mention one heuristic or threshold you might use.
MediumTechnical
32 practiced
Write a SQL query (PostgreSQL dialect) that returns weekly active users (WAU) for the last 12 weeks from an events table named events(event_id, user_id, event_name, occurred_at TIMESTAMP). Group output by week starting on Monday and ensure users are counted once per week regardless of events.
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