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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 5 questions · ~55 min
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Coding5 questions · ~55 min
Sliding Window Substring CountMedium
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Count overlapping occurrences of a pattern in HBO Max text using a linear-time sliding-window pattern matcher.

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Strategy4 questions · ~44 min
Tell Me About YourselfEasy

Craft a concise self-introduction that highlights fit, communication style, and relevance for an Account Executive role.

brand cultureBusiness AcumenCompetitive AnalysisThumbtack
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Execution5 questions · ~55 min
Prioritize Work Under Tight DeadlinesEasy

Explain how you prioritize competing work under time pressure while making trade-offs and keeping stakeholders aligned.

Trade-offsRoadmappingScope ManagementThumbtack
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Statistics & Probability4 questions · ~44 min
Correlation Versus Causation in MarketingEasy

Explain why an observed marketing relationship can be correlated without being causal, and how you would validate a true causal effect.

CorrelationHypothesis TestingCausal InferenceThumbtack
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A/B Testing & Experimentation5 questions · ~55 min
Handle Peeking in Customer ExperimentsHard

Decide how to analyze an experiment when results are checked repeatedly and multiple comparisons may inflate false positives.

PeekingExperimentationStatistical SignificanceThumbtack
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More topics22 questions · ~242 min
Feature Selection for ML ModelsMedium

Choose useful features for a supervised model and avoid overfitting, leakage, and unstable predictors.

Cross-ValidationFeature EngineeringBias-Variance TradeoffThumbtack
Evaluate Models in ProductionHard

How to evaluate a production model using calibration, thresholds, and confusion matrix tradeoffs.

CalibrationAccuracyThreshold TuningThumbtack
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