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Growth and Product Metrics Analysis Questions

Analysis skills specific to growth and product contexts: interpreting funnel metrics, cohort and retention analyses, attribution of acquisition versus activation, detecting seasonality and external event impacts, and diagnosing conversion or engagement changes. Candidates should be able to form hypotheses about what drove changes, propose targeted follow up analyses or A B tests, and identify which additional metrics are needed to evaluate unit economics and growth efficiency.

HardTechnical
45 practiced
Design an anomaly detection and alerting system for key product KPIs (e.g., conversion, DAU, revenue) that minimizes false positives during known seasonality and active experiments. Describe the detection algorithms, how to incorporate experiment and calendar metadata, alert routing, and feedback loops to tune alerts over time.
MediumTechnical
52 practiced
Write a SQL query or describe the steps to produce weekly cohort retention curves for 12 weeks using PostgreSQL given users(user_id, created_at) and events(user_id, event_type, occurred_at). The output should show cohort_week, week_number (0..11), cohort_size, retained_users, and retention_rate.
EasyTechnical
45 practiced
Explain cohort analysis and the difference between time-based cohorts and behavior-based cohorts. Using an example, describe how you would use weekly signup cohorts to evaluate whether a new onboarding flow improved 4-week retention versus the old flow. Explain what metrics you would compute and why.
HardTechnical
45 practiced
You recommend pausing a marketing campaign that increased acquisition by 40% but decreased conversion rate and increased CAC/paid conversions. As the product manager presenting to executives, outline the one-page decision brief you would prepare showing trade-offs, the metrics and visualizations you would include, recommended actions, and the risks of each option.
HardTechnical
39 practiced
Write a PostgreSQL approach (SQL or pseudocode) to compute a Kaplan-Meier survival curve for weekly retention from raw events: users(user_id, created_at) and events(user_id, occurred_at). The output should include week_number, at_risk_count, events_count, survival_probability. Explain edge cases and how you handle censoring.

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