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Metrics and Dashboard Design Questions

Knowledge and skills for defining, interpreting, and presenting key business and sales metrics through effective dashboard architecture. Candidates should demonstrate familiarity with common product and sales metrics such as daily active users, monthly active users, churn, retention, lifetime value, customer acquisition cost, and net revenue retention, and explain what those metrics measure and how they interact. They should be able to read and interpret dashboards, spot anomalous trends and red flags, and recommend tracking or metric improvements. On the architecture and design side, candidates should show how to structure data and dashboards to serve different audiences including sales leadership, individual sales representatives, and finance; balance leading indicators such as activity and pipeline metrics with lagging indicators such as revenue and bookings; consider tradeoffs between real time data and data accuracy; and apply dashboard design principles for clarity, actionability, and drill down from summary to detail. Topics include metric definition and calculation, data freshness and governance, audience segmentation and access, visual encoding and layout, alerting and thresholds, and recommendations for instrumentation and measurement improvements.

EasyTechnical
62 practiced
Write a DAX measure (Power BI) or describe the logic to compute Year-over-Year (YoY) MRR growth for the current month compared to the same month last year, assuming a table `Fact_Revenue(Date, MRR)`. Include handling months with no data.
HardTechnical
71 practiced
You need product, engineering, and marketing teams to add instrumentation for a new funnel metric (Trial -> Activation -> Paid). Describe how you'd influence stakeholders, create acceptance criteria and tracking plan, test telemetry, roll out the events, and validate the collected data after release.
HardTechnical
72 practiced
Given transactions `transactions(account_id, transaction_date, amount)` and an `accounts(account_id, signup_date, status)` table, write a SQL-based approach to compute monthly cohort LTV including expansions and contractions, and include a simple discounting of future months at a company discount rate. Show the aggregation logic you'd use for a monthly cohort table.
HardTechnical
49 practiced
A set of executive dashboards are loading slowly due to heavy joins across large tables. Propose concrete optimization strategies across data modeling, query optimization, caching, BI tool rendering, and visuals to reduce load time, and explain tradeoffs (storage cost vs latency).
HardTechnical
69 practiced
A product dashboard shows DAU falling for three weeks while revenue and MRR remain flat. What instrumentation, additional metrics, and segmentation would you recommend to determine whether engagement loss impacts monetization and to detect delayed revenue effects?

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