Business Analyst Behavioral Interview Questions

Review this list of 11 behavioral business analyst interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +82

    "My approach to dealing with difficult stakeholders has always been: Engage - Directly engage with the stakeholder, meet or chat Listen - Listen to what they have to say, patiently. Understand - Understand their POV, even if it is impossible at some times Ask - Ask clarifying questions. Why? When? What? Engage again - Keep them in the loop until there is closure For example, we were in the final stages of a very important, strategic project for our organization. I was leading th"

    Jane D. - "My approach to dealing with difficult stakeholders has always been: Engage - Directly engage with the stakeholder, meet or chat Listen - Listen to what they have to say, patiently. Understand - Understand their POV, even if it is impossible at some times Ask - Ask clarifying questions. Why? When? What? Engage again - Keep them in the loop until there is closure For example, we were in the final stages of a very important, strategic project for our organization. I was leading th"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
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  • "I was assigned to a project where the executive team said they wanted to "improve customer satisfaction" but provided no specific metrics, target outcomes, or scope. The initial brief was vague; they mentioned customer complaints were increasing, but hadn't quantified the problem or identified which customer segments or processes were involved. My responsibility was to lead the analysis and develop a solution; however, first, I needed to transform this ambiguous directive into a clearly defined"

    Dhruv M. - "I was assigned to a project where the executive team said they wanted to "improve customer satisfaction" but provided no specific metrics, target outcomes, or scope. The initial brief was vague; they mentioned customer complaints were increasing, but hadn't quantified the problem or identified which customer segments or processes were involved. My responsibility was to lead the analysis and develop a solution; however, first, I needed to transform this ambiguous directive into a clearly defined"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
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  • "Looking into licensing data for users to match with the validity of their plans , to set up reporting okr's and metrics from the ground up and future problem sculpting for future feature additions I developed the metrics from the existing data tables , with uniform interpretation for datasets used across teams, keeping the modifications done in alignment with the requirements of the stakeholders. Hypotheses for licensing metrics was laid out in a defined manner where it was feasible to cherry"

    Aishwarya J. - "Looking into licensing data for users to match with the validity of their plans , to set up reporting okr's and metrics from the ground up and future problem sculpting for future feature additions I developed the metrics from the existing data tables , with uniform interpretation for datasets used across teams, keeping the modifications done in alignment with the requirements of the stakeholders. Hypotheses for licensing metrics was laid out in a defined manner where it was feasible to cherry"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'What is the project you are most proud of?'
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    "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"

    Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
    +11 more
  • "Been thinking about entering the world of data analytics? There’s no better time to get started! The Harvard Business Review named the roles of data analyst and data scientist as “the sexiest job of the 21st century.” The data analyst role was also included in Career Karma’s top tech jobs for the past three years running.In this article, we’ll talk about why becoming a da"

    Ankit kumar S. - "Been thinking about entering the world of data analytics? There’s no better time to get started! The Harvard Business Review named the roles of data analyst and data scientist as “the sexiest job of the 21st century.” The data analyst role was also included in Career Karma’s top tech jobs for the past three years running.In this article, we’ll talk about why becoming a da"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
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  • Capital One logoAsked at Capital One 
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    "In one of my previous project, I was assigned a feature to implement before the deadline. After understanding the feature I started the design and implementation. I thought that it could be completed, but I could not do before the deadline. Due to this product delivery was delayed, I accepted my mistake that I started work without estimation. Later I asked other team member to help me on some tasks to complete. At the end I completed the feature after one week of the committed deadline."

    Avdhesh T. - "In one of my previous project, I was assigned a feature to implement before the deadline. After understanding the feature I started the design and implementation. I thought that it could be completed, but I could not do before the deadline. Due to this product delivery was delayed, I accepted my mistake that I started work without estimation. Later I asked other team member to help me on some tasks to complete. At the end I completed the feature after one week of the committed deadline."See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
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  • "One project that stands out involved building a customer segmentation dashboard for our marketing team using Power BI. The goal was to help them target campaigns more effectively by segmenting customers based on purchase behavior and demographics. Early in the project, I noticed significant data quality issues in the source tables coming from our CRM system. There were missing values in key fields like customer age and region, duplicate customer IDs, and inconsistencies in how product categories"

    Tim F. - "One project that stands out involved building a customer segmentation dashboard for our marketing team using Power BI. The goal was to help them target campaigns more effectively by segmenting customers based on purchase behavior and demographics. Early in the project, I noticed significant data quality issues in the source tables coming from our CRM system. There were missing values in key fields like customer age and region, duplicate customer IDs, and inconsistencies in how product categories"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'How do you consider the impact of your work on the world?'
    +11

    "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("

    Anonymous Giraffe - "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
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    "As always, I'd start this discussion by asking a couple clarifying questions. In particular, I'd like to learn more from the interviewer about what "not pulling as hard" looks like. Does it mean: lower code output relative to the rest of the team lower velocity per sprint in terms of story points less participation in code reviews minimal participation in meetings and ceremonies Or perhaps it's a combination of these. As others have pointed out, I'd also want to confirm that I am not ma"

    Seth W. - "As always, I'd start this discussion by asking a couple clarifying questions. In particular, I'd like to learn more from the interviewer about what "not pulling as hard" looks like. Does it mean: lower code output relative to the rest of the team lower velocity per sprint in terms of story points less participation in code reviews minimal participation in meetings and ceremonies Or perhaps it's a combination of these. As others have pointed out, I'd also want to confirm that I am not ma"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
  • "Investigation clear understanding the true cause"

    Akash D. - "Investigation clear understanding the true cause"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
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  • Accenture logoAsked at Accenture 

    "My Name is swati i joined genpact in 2014 and from there i have spend 4 years in Audit & SOX Compliances and then next 5 years with investment accounting, my overall experience is good as per the expectation now looking for something more exciting to add in my carrier journey."

    Swati A. - "My Name is swati i joined genpact in 2014 and from there i have spend 4 years in Audit & SOX Compliances and then next 5 years with investment accounting, my overall experience is good as per the expectation now looking for something more exciting to add in my carrier journey."See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
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