Questions to assess critical thinking and analytical skills

Questions designed to assess a candidate’s ability to analyze facts, verify incoming information, identify cause-and-effect relationships, and make informed decisions based on data.

• Describe a situation when the input data or report metrics looked suspicious. How did you verify them, and what conclusions did you reach?
• How do you make decisions when there is insufficient or conflicting information?
• Give an example of when your team’s hypothesis or assumption turned out to be incorrect when checked against the facts.
• What criteria do you use to distinguish the root cause of a problem from its surface-level symptoms?
• How do you justify and defend your decision to colleagues or management if they disagree with it?
• How do you verify the reliability of the information sources you use when making decisions?
• Recall a situation when data analysis forced you to completely change your initial course of action.
• How do you identify and correct your own cognitive biases when working with analytics?
• Describe the process of developing and testing a working hypothesis, from formulation to confirmation or refutation.
• How do you explain complex analytical findings and figures to people who are not experts in your field?
• Tell us about a decision you made based on intuition and how it was later confirmed or disproved by the data.

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