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Describing a data project and its challenges

Hurdles In Data Projects

How would you answer when an Interviewer asks why you applied to their company?

Why Do You Want to Work With Us

Making data-driven insights actionable for those without technical expertise

Simple Explanations

Data Pipelines

Design a data pipeline to compute hourly, daily, and weekly active user metrics from a data lake for an hourly-refreshing dashboard

Data Pipelines and Aggregation

How would you build an ETL pipeline to ingest Stripe payment data into a warehouse for revenue dashboards and analytics

Payment Data Pipeline

Business Case

How would you optimize and try to choose the highest value artwork

Most Valuable Artwork

Data Modeling

Design a cost-conscious analytics solution to store and query daily Kafka clickstream data with two-year retention

Clickstream Data

Product Sense & Metrics

The role of A/B testing in measuring the success rate of an analytics experiment

Success Measurement

Tell me about a data project that didn’t go the way you expected. What did you set out to do, what surprised you, and how did you handle it?

Say you work for an e-commerce website that receives clickstream data from Kafka on a daily basis. You’re asked to design a data analytics solution for storing and querying raw data, with a two-year retention period.

The current data volume is around 600 million events daily.

What kind of data analytics solution would you design, keeping costs in mind?

You’re a data scientist at YouTube. Leadership wants to revisit how the platform measures success, not for a specific new feature, but for the product as a whole given its current state.

How would you define and measure success for YouTube? Identify your primary and secondary metrics, explain your rationale for each, and discuss how you would choose the right thresholds for any engagement-based metrics you propose.

Let’s say you have analytics data stored in a data lake. An analyst tells you they need hourly, daily, and weekly active user data for a dashboard that refreshes every hour.

How would you build this data pipeline?

Let’s say that you’re in charge of getting payment data into your internal data warehouse.

How would you build an ETL pipeline to get Stripe payment data into the database so analysts can build revenue dashboards and run analytics?

When an interviewer asks you a question along the lines of:

<ul>
<li>Why did you apply to our company?</li>
<li>What are you looking for in your next job?</li>
<li>What makes you a good fit for our company?</li>
</ul>

How should you respond?

When asked 'What are you looking for in your next job?' in an interview, how can you tie the company's employee benefits into your response?

When asked 'What are you looking for in your next job?' in an interview, how can you tie the company's employee benefits into your response?

Why Do You Want to Work With Us I

How can company values be used effectively in an interview when asked 'What makes you a good fit for our company?'

How can company values be used effectively in an interview when asked 'What makes you a good fit for our company?'

Why Do You Want to Work With Us II

When responding to the question 'Why did you apply to our company?' during an interview, what aspect should you highlight?

When responding to the question 'Why did you apply to our company?' during an interview, what aspect should you highlight?

Why Do You Want to Work With Us III

How would you convey insights and the methods you use to a non-technical audience?

Tell me about a project in which you had to clean and organize a large dataset.

Describing a real-world data cleaning and organization project

Data Cleaning Experiences

Analytics

You’re given 100 pieces of artwork one by one in random order. Each piece of artwork is worth a different dollar amount.

Your goal is to pick the piece of art with the highest dollar amount. However, you can’t go back once you pass a piece of art and you can only choose one.

How would you optimize and try to choose the highest value artwork?

Calculate Moving Average	SQL	Easy
Predict Customer Churn	Machine Learning	Medium
A/B Test Significance	Statistics	Medium
Optimize Query Performance	SQL	Hard
Feature Importance Analysis	Machine Learning	Medium
Clean Missing Data	Python	Easy
Neural Network Architecture	Deep Learning	Hard
Calculate Cohort Retention	SQL	Medium
Bayesian Probability	Statistics	Easy
Recommend Similar Products	Machine Learning	Hard

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