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Data Analysis and Insight Generation Questions

Ability to convert raw data into clear, evidence based business insights and prioritized recommendations. Candidates should demonstrate end to end analytical thinking including data cleaning and validation, exploratory analysis, summary statistics, distributions, aggregations, pivot tables, time series and trend analysis, segmentation and cohort analysis, anomaly detection, and interpretation of relationships between metrics. This topic covers hypothesis generation and validation, basic statistical testing, controlled experiments and split testing, sensitivity and robustness checks, and sense checking results against domain knowledge. It emphasizes connecting metrics to business outcomes, defining success criteria and measurement plans, synthesizing quantitative and qualitative evidence, and prioritizing recommendations based on impact feasibility risk and dependencies. Practical communication skills are assessed including charting dashboards crafting concise narratives and tailoring findings to non technical and technical stakeholders, along with documenting next steps experiments and how outcomes will be measured.

MediumTechnical
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As PM, you must prioritize three analytics requests: (A) Build a funnel attribution report taking 3 weeks, (B) Instrument a critical event that prevents AB tests until implemented (2 weeks), (C) Create a lightweight dashboard for execs to monitor product health (1 week). Using impact-feasibility-risk, explain your prioritization and defend trade-offs.
EasyTechnical
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You receive a dataset exported from analytics with many missing values and inconsistent timestamp formats. As a PM owning analysis for a growth experiment, describe your end-to-end approach to cleaning and validating this data before analysis. Include specific checks, rules for imputation, and how you would document assumptions.
HardTechnical
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Explain propensity score matching and when a PM should consider it for observational analysis. Provide a brief example comparing two cohorts (users who received an email campaign vs. those who did not) and how matching helps infer treatment effects.
HardTechnical
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You are launching a feature that could cannibalize an existing premium feature. Using data, outline an analysis plan to quantify cannibalization risk and how you'd model net revenue impact under different adoption scenarios. Include at least three scenarios and key assumptions.
MediumTechnical
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You suspect that a drop in conversion is caused by a recent SPA (single-page app) change that altered event firing. Design an experiment/validation steps to confirm if instrumentation changes are the cause rather than real user behavior change. Include SQL checks and quick instrumentation fixes.

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