Product Analyst Interview Questions
1
How do you determine risk with a client?
Open-ended
2
How do you present to leadership?
Open-ended
3
How do you measure success?
Open-ended
4
How do you stay organized?
Open-ended
5
How do you make recommendations?
Open-ended
6
I want to imagine you are the data expert on a project, how do you make sure everyone understands what you need from a data perspective?
Open-ended
7
Tell me about a time you did not achieve your goals, what happened and what did you learn from it?
Behavioral
8
Tell me about a time you had to create complex analysis to solve business needs?
Behavioral
9
Tell me about a time you optimized for your organization and it had tremendous success?
Behavioral
10
Tell me about a time your collaborative analysis yielded success?
Behavioral
11
How do you remove roadblocks?
Open-ended
12
Tell me about a time when you took something apart and rebuilt it?
Behavioral
13
Tell me about the most unique set of business requirements you ever worked with?
Behavioral
14
Tell me about a conflict you had with an internal partner and how you resolved it?
Behavioral
15
How do you identify trends?
Open-ended
16
Can you give me an example of when you�ve been able to see around the corner to meet your internal customer�s needs?
Behavioral
17
How do you foster strong relationships with the product team?
Open-ended
18
How many Google Homes will be sold in the US in 2020?
Open-ended
19
How would you make a Google product more profitable?
Open-ended
20
Tell me about a time you set a stretch goal and achieved it?
Behavioral
21
Tell me about the coolest dashboard you have implemented in your career?
Behavioral
22
What are the most important components of metrics reporting?
Open-ended
23
How do you build trust?
Open-ended
24
How do you define business requirements?
Open-ended
25
How do you connect the dots with data?
Open-ended
26
Tell me about a time that you identified an opportunity and how you got group buy-in to pursue it.
Behavioral
27
Tell me about a time when an employee gave you negative feedback.
Behavioral
28
Tell me about a time when someone changed their mind after you had already started leading a project. How did you handle it?
Behavioral
29
Tell me about a time when you gave an important piece of feedback to someone.
Behavioral
30
Tell me about a time when you got an under performing team member to improve their work.
Behavioral
31
Tell me about a time when you had a disagreement with your manager.
Behavioral
32
Tell me about a time when you were able to make a decision without having much data metrics in hand.
Behavioral
33
Tell me about a time where your analysis didn't yield the results you were expecting. What did you learn from the experience?
Behavioral
34
What is a Facebook product that you�d be interested in working on? How would you use analytics to improve it?
Open-ended
35
We�ve introduced this particular new friend recommendation feature that allows you to see degrees of separation. How should we determine whether to keep it or not?
Open-ended
36
Given data on Facebook members friending/defriending each other on Facebook, find out whether a given pair of members are currently friends.
Open-ended
37
Imagine Facebook has data on height and gender of our users. How would you prove whether men are taller than women?
Open-ended
38
Imagine we're looking at Facebook data divided by gender. What statistical methods would you use to verify that different genders have different levels of activity?
Open-ended
39
How would you test whether having more friends now increases the probability that a Facebook member is still an active user after 6 months?
Open-ended
40
Facebook has raters to rate ads: 80% are careful raters and rate 60% of the ads as good and 40% as bad, 20% are lazy raters and rate 100% ads as good. What is the probability that an ad is rated good? Given that 3 ads have been rated as good, what is the probability that they were rated by a lazy rater? Given that n ads have been rated as good, what is the probability that they were rated by a lazy rater?
Open-ended