Data and Analytics Partnership Questions

Skills for collaborating effectively with analytics and data science teams. Topics include aligning on metric definitions, scoping and prioritizing analytics requests, understanding data team capacity and constraints, fostering trust and constructive skepticism of analyses, coordinating early during product planning, and handling conflicts when analysis contradicts intuition. Candidates should be able to describe prioritization frameworks, communication strategies, and examples of cross functional workflows that produce reliable, actionable insights while respecting data team bandwidth.

HardSystem Design

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Design a lightweight 'analytics SLA dashboard' to surface request age, backlog, per-analyst utilization, throughput, and quality metrics. List the key panels, suggested alert thresholds, and how you'd make the dashboard actionable for both PMs and analytics leads (filters, drilldowns, ownership labels).

EasyTechnical

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A stakeholder requests an analysis that will take 4 weeks because of necessary data cleanup. Draft the communication you'd send to explain the timeline, tradeoffs, and offer two alternative faster options that deliver partial but useful insights within one week.

HardTechnical

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Your product has inconsistent user identifiers: web uses hashed email, mobile uses device_id, and third-party widgets use anonymous IDs. Propose a strategy to build a reliable user identity layer for product analytics, discussing deterministic joins, probabilistic linking, privacy and compliance trade-offs, and a stepwise implementation roadmap.

EasyTechnical

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Before launching an A/B test, what minimal data requirements would you request from analytics? Describe required metrics to collect, the inputs needed for sample-size estimation (baseline rate, MDE, power), instrumentation checks, and how you'd define success criteria for a low-conversion checkout flow expecting a 50% relative lift.

EasyTechnical

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You're introducing 'weekly active users' (WAU) as a KPI. Explain your step-by-step approach to align the WAU definition between product, analytics, and engineering teams, including how you'd resolve ambiguous cases (timezones, deduping, multi-device), and how you'd document the final metric for discovery and reuse.

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