Behavioral & Leadership (Onsite) — STAR Examples With Metrics
Provide succinct STAR-format examples (Situation, Task, Action, Result), with specific metrics and dates, to answer each prompt:
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Stakeholder conflict: Describe a time you disagreed with a PM’s priority informed by weak data. How did you influence without authority? Include the exact decision, alternatives considered, and the measurable outcome (e.g., +X% conversion, −Y% churn).
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Ambiguity: A project had unclear success metrics and changing requirements. How did you define the north-star metric and guardrails? What trade-offs did you make and how did you communicate them to execs?
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Depth probe: Pick one project where you owned the analysis end-to-end. Expect follow-ups like: what model assumptions failed; how you validated data quality; how you handled missingness; why your approach beat a simpler baseline; and what you’d do differently.
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Pushback and resilience: Tell me about a time you were out of examples during questioning (fatigue). How did you maintain composure and reframe? What did you learn and change for the next loop?
For each, include: stakeholders, your unique contribution, risks you identified up front, and a before/after metric with absolute numbers, not just percentages.