Business Intelligence Background Questions
A summary of business intelligence experience including the BI platforms and tools used, types of dashboards and reports built, data volumes and sources, analytical methods, stakeholder consumption patterns, and measurable business outcomes. Candidates should explain how BI efforts influenced decisions, examples of ETL or modeling work, and any leadership or ownership of BI initiatives.
HardSystem Design
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Design a BI analytics platform for SRE reliability metrics to ingest 100M events/day, support sub-second query times for top-100 dashboards, and store two years of rollups. Provide architecture diagrams in prose covering ingest, processing, storage (hot/cold), query engine, cost trade-offs, HA, and cross-region considerations.
MediumTechnical
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Propose a retention policy for high-resolution telemetry (metrics and logs) that balances cost and troubleshootability. Include hot vs cold tiering, rollup strategies, an example retention schedule (e.g., 1s for 30d, 1m for 365d), and how to handle queries spanning tiers.
HardTechnical
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Design a cross-team SLA dashboard that aggregates SLAs across microservices into a product-level customer-facing reliability score. Discuss weighting services by customer impact, representing partial outages, dependency graph modeling, and how to handle cascading failures in the aggregated score.
HardTechnical
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Design a governance model and technical enforcement for canonical SRE metrics across teams: include a name registry, semantic tests, automated CI checks on dashboard queries, and mechanisms for automated remediation or flagging when a team introduces conflicting metric definitions. How would you manage change approvals and audits?
EasyTechnical
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You're designing an incident response dashboard for on-call SREs. What key metrics, visualizations and drill-downs should be present on the top-level page to enable fast triage during a P1? Describe layout, refresh rates, and which metrics should have alerts wired to an incident system.
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