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Data Analyst · Product Analyst · Mid-level · Theory

A marketplace team is launching a new recommendations feed on the home page. What metrics would you propose to tell whether it's successful?

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The interviewer wants to see whether you can build a metrics system around a product change: pick one target business metric, separate it from the feed's diagnostic metrics, account for cannibalization, guardrails and the two-sided nature of a marketplace, and verify the effect with a proper A/B test.

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