The ultimate guide to product analytics interviews. Strategies developed by FAANG engineers to craft structured, impactful answers and increase your chances of landing a data science job.

Product analytics interviews evaluate your skills and creativity as an aspiring data analyst. Interview questions evaluate if you can use your technical knowledge to guide the further development of a product. Learning how to answer these questions is crucial to ace most job interviews for data scientists and analysts.

In this course, you’ll first gain an overview of what product analytics interviews look like and what kinds of questions usually come up. Next, you’ll learn to use a framework for answering product analytics questions, showcasing your analytical skills. Finally, you’ll learn how to apply said framework to different kinds of product analytics interview questions by looking at several examples.

With this course, you’ll increase your chances of landing a job in data science by learning how to effectively answer product analytics interview questions. You’ll be able to provide well-structured and well-communicated answers, and show you can creatively tackle any business problem you may face.

Ace the Product Analytics Job Interview

Examples of investigating metrics questions are typically phrased along the lines of “If X metric is up/down by Y%, how would we investigate it?”

# Understanding the scope

Interviewers are looking to see if we can investigate and understand what the problem is before we actually dive into it..Do we have sufficient context behind the solution that we’ve proposed to test? Are we looking for the issue in a thoughtful, creative, and efficient manner?

Therefore, part of the scope of the question is to clarify the requirements, gather context, and define our task clearly.

## Example

Let’s start with an actual problem to frame our strategies around. We can use a classic product example of friend requests:

*[Let’s say that the number of friend requests is down by 10%. What would we investigate?](https://www.interviewquery.com/questions/friend-requests-down)*


Learn what investigating metric questions are. 

Introduction to Investigating Metrics Questions

Learn what investigating metric questions are.

Introduction

Investigating Metrics

Fractional Metrics

Measuring Success

Feature Change

Metric Trade-Offs

Growth

Conclusion

Introduction to Investigating Metrics Questions

Understanding the scope