Behavioral Question: Defining New Product Metrics Without Clear Guidance
Scenario
You are interviewing for a Data Scientist role in a product organization. The team is launching or iterating on a feature, but there are no established success metrics or clear guidance on how to measure impact. You need to lead the metric definition and align cross-functional partners.
Prompt
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Describe a time you had to define new product metrics without clear guidance.
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How did you align stakeholders and measure success?
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What was the result?
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What would you improve if you did it again?
Expectations
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Use the STAR framework (Situation, Task, Actions, Results).
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Focus on impact and business/user outcomes.
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Demonstrate cross-functional communication (PM, Eng, Design, UXR, Legal, Data Eng, Ops).
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Show data-driven decisions (metric taxonomy, baselines, targets, experimentation/observational design, guardrails).