A.4. Behavioral

A.4.1. Project that had the most impact

What’s the project you worked on that had the biggest impact?

Example answer

In my last job, I was brought in to build an online experimentation, or A/B testing, analytics system. The company was interested in starting to run experiments and had an engineer who could implement them, two growth marketers who could come up with the ideas and lay out the changes, and a manager, but they needed a way to understand what the results of the experiment were.

When I started, I analyzed each experiment individually in R. But I knew that this wasn’t the best system: it meant that the team needed me to run the scripts to see the results and that I was duplicating work across analyses.

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