Dive Deep

Your Qualities

• I Operate at “ALL LEVELS”, Horizontally and Vertically.

• No task is “BENEATH” me. 

• I “STAY CONNECTED” with the “DETAILS”.

• I “AUDIT” frequently.

• I am “SKEPTICAL” when metrics and anecdotes differ.

• I “RESEARCH” and “THINK” and then “ACT”.

Typical Questions

• Have you ever leveraged data to develop strategy?

• Give me an example of when you used data to make a decision/solve a problem.

• Tell me about a time you were trying to understand a problem on your team and you had to go down several layers to figure it out.

  • Who did you talk with and what info proved most valuable?

  • How did you use that info to help solve the problem?

• Walk me through a big problem in your organization that you helped to solve.

  • How did you become aware of it?

  • What info did you gather, what was missing, and how did you fill the gaps?

  • Did you do a postmortem analysis and what did you learn?

• Tell me about a problem you had to solve that required in-depth thought and analysis.

  • How did you know you were focusing on the right things?

• Can you tell me about a specific metric you’ve used to identify a need for change in your department?

  • Did you create the metric or was it readily available?

  • How did this and other info influence the change?

Interviewers Motive

• How technically strong is this candidate?

• Is this candidate Data driven? 

• Is this candidate a  generalist or a big picture person?

• For Program Manager, Is this candidate someone who is just a scheduler (bring people together), or a problem solver (let me also take an interest in the problem and brainstorm it).

• Can this candidate explain to me a complex problem in simple words? 

• Is this candidate just a problem reporter (project is RED), but not a problem solver (and here is how we are planning to get out of it).