The document contains 5 questions about communication skills for an interview. The questions ask the candidate to explain a technical concept related to the role, introduce something they are passionate about, explain an A/B test and linear regression to an engineer without statistics knowledge, explain what a 95% confidence interval means, and why data is important to senior executives.
The document contains 5 questions about communication skills for an interview. The questions ask the candidate to explain a technical concept related to the role, introduce something they are passionate about, explain an A/B test and linear regression to an engineer without statistics knowledge, explain what a 95% confidence interval means, and why data is important to senior executives.
The document contains 5 questions about communication skills for an interview. The questions ask the candidate to explain a technical concept related to the role, introduce something they are passionate about, explain an A/B test and linear regression to an engineer without statistics knowledge, explain what a 95% confidence interval means, and why data is important to senior executives.
1. Explain to me a technical concept related to the role that you’re
interviewing for.
2. Introduce me to something you’re passionate about.
3. How would you explain an A/B test to an engineer with no statis-
tics background? A linear regression?
• A/B testing, or more broadly, multivariate testing, is the testing of dif-
ferent elements of a user’s experience to determine which variation helps the business achieve its goal more effectively (i.e. increasing conversions, etc..) This can be copy on a web site, button colors, different user in- terfaces, different email subject lines, calls to action, offers, etc. #### 4. How would you explain a confidence interval to an engineer with no statistics background? What does 95% confidence mean? • link #### 5. How would you explain to a group of senior executives why data is important?