Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and a data science project with real business impact?
- What kinds of problems do you most enjoy working on?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through a model you built: problem framing, baseline, features, evaluation, and outcome.
- How do you design an A/B test, and what are the mistakes you watch for?
- How do you decide between a simple model and a complex one?
- How do you communicate uncertainty to stakeholders who want a single number?
- Describe your process for validating data quality before modeling.
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a project where the data did not support the hypothesis. What did you do?
- Describe a time a stakeholder pushed for a conclusion the data did not support.
- How do you decide when analysis is good enough to ship a recommendation?
Problem-solving / case
- We want to predict which customers will churn next quarter. How would you approach it end to end?
- An experiment shows a significant lift, but the effect disappears after launch. What might explain it?
- Your model performs well offline but poorly in production. Walk us through your investigation.
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