Got a first round for a Senior Analyst role on the commercial insights team at PepsiCo. Recruiter said it would be 'mostly behavioral with some analytical discussion.' I have no idea what 'analytical discussion' means here. Is it SQL? Case-style business questions? Excel modeling?
I've been in BI for 3 years so I'm comfortable with SQL and dashboards but I haven't done case interviews before. And I've read some posts saying PepsiCo goes pretty heavy on leadership competencies even for individual contributor analyst roles, which also stresses me out. Anyone been through the data/analytics side of their process recently?
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ds_dmitri
I interviewed for a similar role about 8 months ago. 'analytical discussion' for me meant walking through a past analysis I had done in detail: what question I was answering, what data I used, what limitations existed, what I'd do differently. no live SQL, no case. more about how you think than whether you can write a join.
numbers_only
for the more quantitative PepsiCo roles (finance-adjacent analytics, revenue growth management) I've seen actual SQL screens come up. but for commercial insights it sounds like it's more the 'explain your methodology' style. prepare one or two strong past projects to walk through cold.
returner_ren
the behavioral piece is real even for IC analyst roles at big CPG companies. they are genuinely scoring you on their internal competency framework. STAR format is not optional, it's the rubric. I'd treat the 'analytical discussion' as bonus points and nail the behavioral prep first.