Decision Support Interview Questions

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Background questions (tell me about you, your experience, your skills, why this position interests you etc). Tell me about the tools and methods you used for data analysis in your last role. Standard "Tell me about a time when..." questions. Why do you make this career change and what do you feel would be required for you to succeed in this role?
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Decision Science Analyst III

Interviewed at USAA

3.3
Mar 24, 2023

Background questions (tell me about you, your experience, your skills, why this position interests you etc). Tell me about the tools and methods you used for data analysis in your last role. Standard "Tell me about a time when..." questions. Why do you make this career change and what do you feel would be required for you to succeed in this role?

(All as one question from a senior person in the Department). Give me an example of how you delivered a project to stakeholders? What was the success criteria you agreed beforehand? How was it agreed that success would be measured and how did you perform on this rating?
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Decision Scientist

Interviewed at Lowell

2.9
Jan 22, 2021

(All as one question from a senior person in the Department). Give me an example of how you delivered a project to stakeholders? What was the success criteria you agreed beforehand? How was it agreed that success would be measured and how did you perform on this rating?

Case study (based on an actual problem they worked on): A Starbucks Cafe is planning to change its source for a food product to a more local source. You have 1 year of historical order and sales data. How would you determine how much of this food product to buy for a given day?
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Decision Scientist

Interviewed at Starbucks

3.5
Apr 14, 2020

Case study (based on an actual problem they worked on): A Starbucks Cafe is planning to change its source for a food product to a more local source. You have 1 year of historical order and sales data. How would you determine how much of this food product to buy for a given day?

Interview was very negative - like an interrogation - supervisor made it clear they did not want to promote me. Rather than phrasing a question such as "Have you ever done xxx...?" they took the printed job specs and said "You have never done xxx, have you?
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Director of Decision Support

Interviewed at Chapters Health System

3.3
Aug 16, 2016

Interview was very negative - like an interrogation - supervisor made it clear they did not want to promote me. Rather than phrasing a question such as "Have you ever done xxx...?" they took the printed job specs and said "You have never done xxx, have you?

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