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Asked at Amazon, Accenture, Apple • 2 years ago
Tell me about a time when you worked on a team and demonstrated leadership.
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Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Tell me about a time when you did something truly customer-centric.
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Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Tell me about a time when you could not provide a user requirement. What did you do?
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"When I was working as a project manager in the QVC, I was working with the marketing and content management team. We had two sets of customers, one was planners (a team that plan the product portfolio and decide which product should go at what time and the other team were called schedulers, this team add the commercial between each product description clip. Our team was responsible to create a UI for them to use the existing product clips from each episode and use them to create new episodes. T"
Kunkun D. - "When I was working as a project manager in the QVC, I was working with the marketing and content management team. We had two sets of customers, one was planners (a team that plan the product portfolio and decide which product should go at what time and the other team were called schedulers, this team add the commercial between each product description clip. Our team was responsible to create a UI for them to use the existing product clips from each episode and use them to create new episodes. T"See full answer
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Asked at Amazon • 5 months ago
Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your manager or peer on something important to the business.
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Asked at Amazon, Meta • a year ago
How do you set expectations on a project?
Data Engineer
Analytical
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"generally at the beginning of ever project the PgM has to come up with 5Ws & a H that translates in to a project charter. this forms the baseline expectations for a project to get kick-started."
Chakravarthy B. - "generally at the beginning of ever project the PgM has to come up with 5Ws & a H that translates in to a project charter. this forms the baseline expectations for a project to get kick-started."See full answer
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Asked at Amazon • 2 months ago
Why do you want to join Amazon?
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Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Tell me about a time when you had two deadlines at the same time. How did you manage the situation?
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Asked at Amazon, DoorDash, LinkedIn + 1 more • 5 months ago
Tell me about your product management experience.
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Asked at Amazon • 2 years ago
Tell me about a time you continuously improved a project.
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Asked at Amazon, Meta • 5 months ago
Tell me about a time you faced a difficult challenge.
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Asked at Amazon, Twitter • 2 years ago
Design a Tic Tac Toe game that allows remote play.
Software Engineer
System Design
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"will design remote two-player Tic Tac Toe: players see the same authoritative 3×3 board, take turns as X and O, and get instant updates when the other moves. I will assume mobile and web clients, spotty networks, and that cheating must be prevented by never trusting the client board state. Clarifications. Are users logged in or guest with a link? Is matchmaking random or invite-only? What happens on disconnect—forfeit, pause, or async completion? D"
Jiale L. - "will design remote two-player Tic Tac Toe: players see the same authoritative 3×3 board, take turns as X and O, and get instant updates when the other moves. I will assume mobile and web clients, spotty networks, and that cheating must be prevented by never trusting the client board state. Clarifications. Are users logged in or guest with a link? Is matchmaking random or invite-only? What happens on disconnect—forfeit, pause, or async completion? D"See full answer
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System Design
Asked at Amazon • 4 years ago
What would change if internet speed were 100 times faster than today?
Product Manager
Product Strategy
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"Started at 1.48 Clarifying question: Are we interested in a particular lens for this problem? Looking back in history to understand what significant changes did fast internet made in the world: -> Fast Internet - More consumption -> Fast Internet - More Adoption -> Fast Internet - Cheap Internet Let's try to see what kind of things will change in each of these categories. Let me look at it from a lens of an end user (internet consumer uses the internet for work and maintaining their socia"
Anubhav A. - "Started at 1.48 Clarifying question: Are we interested in a particular lens for this problem? Looking back in history to understand what significant changes did fast internet made in the world: -> Fast Internet - More consumption -> Fast Internet - More Adoption -> Fast Internet - Cheap Internet Let's try to see what kind of things will change in each of these categories. Let me look at it from a lens of an end user (internet consumer uses the internet for work and maintaining their socia"See full answer
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Asked at Amazon • a year ago
Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a co-worker who struggled to keep up.
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Behavioral
Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Describe a situation where you helped a customer make a decision.
Technical Program Manager
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Technical Program Manager
Behavioral
Asked at Amazon, Google, PwC • a month ago
Tell me about your recent role.
Technical Program Manager
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"delete"
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Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Launch a services marketplace for Amazon users.
Product Strategy
Program Sense
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"Vision of Amazon: One stop place for users' buying needs - products and services. Goal of Amazon: Increase wallet share of users or engagement from users. Why services: Services would help achieving this goal, as the users would love using services. And Users need a platform to access services. Market in consideration: India (it is big enough. I am more familiar with this market) Current market landscape: Competition: A couple of marketplaces for services. Similar"
Sanchit G. - "Vision of Amazon: One stop place for users' buying needs - products and services. Goal of Amazon: Increase wallet share of users or engagement from users. Why services: Services would help achieving this goal, as the users would love using services. And Users need a platform to access services. Market in consideration: India (it is big enough. I am more familiar with this market) Current market landscape: Competition: A couple of marketplaces for services. Similar"See full answer
Product Strategy
Program Sense
Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Tell me about a time when you redesigned a process and the reasoning behind it.
Product Manager
Behavioral
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Product Manager
Behavioral
Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Develop an email service for checkout experience that confirms orders.
Product Design
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Product Design
Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
How would you improve Amazon Alexa?
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Product Design
Asked at Amazon • 5 years ago
Tell me about a project that started small but grew significantly.
Behavioral
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"facebook"
Gaurav S. - "facebook"See full answer
Behavioral