Behavioral & Leadership (Data Scientist Onsite)

Prompt: High-Stakes Decision That Turned Out Wrong

Describe one specific decision you owned that materially affected users, revenue, or roadmap, and that ultimately proved to be wrong.

Address the following:

(a) Context: the objective, options considered, constraints, stakeholders, and the data available at the time.

(b) Decision framework: trade-offs, risks, expected value (if applicable), why the decision failed; include unknown unknowns and cognitive biases.

(c) Detection and response: the signals that revealed the mistake, how you course-corrected, how you communicated across teams, and the measurable outcomes.

(d) Prevention: if you could redo it, what process changes, safeguards, or alignment mechanisms would you implement to prevent recurrence? What mechanisms have you instituted since?

Keep product details anonymized if needed.