Technical Phone Screen: Marketing Experiments and Causal Inference
Prompt
You are interviewing for a data-science role focusing on marketing experiment design and causal inference.
Answer the following:
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Tooling
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Which Python or R packages do you use for causal inference and experiment analysis, and why?
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Project Example
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Describe a project where you applied causal-inference methods.
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What was the business problem?
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Which approach did you choose and why?
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What was the impact?
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Difference-in-Differences (DiD)
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Explain the DiD technique: setup, estimator, and interpretation.
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What key assumptions does it rely on?
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When would you prefer DiD over other causal methods?
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Email Campaign for the 1point3acres Community
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How would you:
a) Select target users?
b) Define success metrics (primary/secondary)?
c) Design a screening test and a hold-out experiment?
d) Analyze the results (power, lift, significance), including guardrails and diagnostics?
Hints: Mention packages like statsmodels, EconML; cover parallel trends, treatment vs. control, randomization, power, lift, and significance.