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Business Analyst interview questions
13 questions business analysts get asked, grouped by type. Under each one are the skills it is really testing, so you can pick a story from your own work that shows them.
Technical
- How do you gather requirements from a stakeholder who isn't sure what they want?Tests: requirements elicitation, stakeholder management
- Walk me through how you document a current business process before proposing changes to it.Tests: process analysis, documentation
- How do you write a requirement or user story so a developer can build it without guessing?Tests: requirements elicitation, documentation
Situational
- Two stakeholders want different things from the same feature. How do you resolve it?Tests: stakeholder management, conflict resolution
- A project's requirements keep growing after they were signed off. How do you handle it?Tests: prioritisation, stakeholder management
- You've proposed a process change that the team affected doesn't want. What do you do?Tests: stakeholder management, communication
Behavioral
- Tell me about a time you used data to make the case for a business change.Tests: data analysis, communication
- Describe a time you evaluated two possible solutions and recommended one over the other.Tests: data analysis, judgment
- Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker and how you handled it.Tests: conflict resolution, communication
- Describe a project or task that did not go well and what you did about it.Tests: ownership, reflection
- Give an example of persuading someone to adopt an idea they initially resisted.Tests: influence, communication
- Walk me through how you decided what to work on when you had more requests than time.Tests: prioritisation, judgment
- Tell me about a time you had to learn something new quickly to get a job done.Tests: learning agility, ownership
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