"This is a Diagnosis Question. The goal of Diagnosis questions is to test whether the interviewee is organized and logical in their product approach. It also tests whether the PM is exhaustive in causes for decreases and whether they provides realistic solutions to the problem.
Let's follow the Diagnosis Question formula:
Ask clarifying questions
Propose high level reasons for a drop
Gather context (TROPIC)
Establish a theory of probable cause
Test theories
"
Exponent - "This is a Diagnosis Question. The goal of Diagnosis questions is to test whether the interviewee is organized and logical in their product approach. It also tests whether the PM is exhaustive in causes for decreases and whether they provides realistic solutions to the problem.
Let's follow the Diagnosis Question formula:
Ask clarifying questions
Propose high level reasons for a drop
Gather context (TROPIC)
Establish a theory of probable cause
Test theories
"See full answer
"We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions:
Ask Clarifying Questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Identify current solutions
Brainstorm new solutions
Evaluate solutions
Measure success
Summarize
We'll go through each of these step by step.
Ask Clarifying Questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"
Stephen C. - "We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions:
Ask Clarifying Questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Identify current solutions
Brainstorm new solutions
Evaluate solutions
Measure success
Summarize
We'll go through each of these step by step.
Ask Clarifying Questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"See full answer
"I would structure my answer in the following way:
What's the situational context?
Mission of Uber
Making transportation easy by creating a platform for connecting drivers and riders
Key market trends: In top tier cities there are players in the food delivery market and the size of the pie is growing fast
What would feed into the decision-making?
The new platform should be able to connect customers and restaurants. The key things needed to make this platform success"
pmpractice - "I would structure my answer in the following way:
What's the situational context?
Mission of Uber
Making transportation easy by creating a platform for connecting drivers and riders
Key market trends: In top tier cities there are players in the food delivery market and the size of the pie is growing fast
What would feed into the decision-making?
The new platform should be able to connect customers and restaurants. The key things needed to make this platform success"See full answer
"1) Product
Just to make sure we are on the same page. Facebook Groups is a functionality/feature inside Facebook App where people can create and interact within specific groups. These groups are managed by admins, who define the rules. Is my understanding correct?
2) Clarification
Do we want to measure success for a specific user segment?
Are we looking at specific types of groups? What about location?
What about devices, have you any in mind, web, android, iOS?
_I will assume tha"
Leonardo F. - "1) Product
Just to make sure we are on the same page. Facebook Groups is a functionality/feature inside Facebook App where people can create and interact within specific groups. These groups are managed by admins, who define the rules. Is my understanding correct?
2) Clarification
Do we want to measure success for a specific user segment?
Are we looking at specific types of groups? What about location?
What about devices, have you any in mind, web, android, iOS?
_I will assume tha"See full answer
Execution
Analytical
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"Firstly lets note down the ways of monetization -
Promotional Ads
Paid Filters and AR effects
Influencer promotional fee
Instagram Additional Tools for Creators - subscription basis (analytics and management)
> many influencers also run their own promotional campaigns to gain more and more followers on their handles - Instagram can use this opportunity (e-commerce sites ranking algorithm of different items/sellers)
> promotional ads can affect slightly on user engagement but accord"
Aniket B. - "Firstly lets note down the ways of monetization -
Promotional Ads
Paid Filters and AR effects
Influencer promotional fee
Instagram Additional Tools for Creators - subscription basis (analytics and management)
> many influencers also run their own promotional campaigns to gain more and more followers on their handles - Instagram can use this opportunity (e-commerce sites ranking algorithm of different items/sellers)
> promotional ads can affect slightly on user engagement but accord"See full answer
"My least favorite product is a desktop software solution called Marg, which is used frequently at our family business. Its an inventory, bookkeeping, and accounting software for small businesses in India and integrates with the official government tax portal. The general journey to accomplish any task, say adding a new product type, is very unintuitive and requires someone to be hands-on and familiar with the product to actually do this. Getting there is pure hit and trial. Like most desktop sof"
Shankhadip M. - "My least favorite product is a desktop software solution called Marg, which is used frequently at our family business. Its an inventory, bookkeeping, and accounting software for small businesses in India and integrates with the official government tax portal. The general journey to accomplish any task, say adding a new product type, is very unintuitive and requires someone to be hands-on and familiar with the product to actually do this. Getting there is pure hit and trial. Like most desktop sof"See full answer
"Structure
Why should we build this? + market, company, product, trends
Users
Painpoints
Solutions
Summary
Clarify
company - 0 to 1
Why should build this
Market factors
Size and opportunity (tam)
sizeable market - billions of dollars in TAM
Competitors
(1) governments (2) parkmobile (3) vendors for each parking lot (parking structures / lots, man people)
Strengths
Parkmobile - available anywh"
Karthik M. - "Structure
Why should we build this? + market, company, product, trends
Users
Painpoints
Solutions
Summary
Clarify
company - 0 to 1
Why should build this
Market factors
Size and opportunity (tam)
sizeable market - billions of dollars in TAM
Competitors
(1) governments (2) parkmobile (3) vendors for each parking lot (parking structures / lots, man people)
Strengths
Parkmobile - available anywh"See full answer
"I am not sure if I agree with the approach taken in the mock video. Should FB build a tablet? is not the same as "Design FB tablet." This is an analytical decision question, not a design question. I would have done strategic analysis using Porter's five forces or maybe SWOT and value chain analysis to decide rather than designing a product.
My answer will be to examine critical factors to decide to build tablet vs. to build apps for existing non-FB tablets (ipads and android tablets)
Users"
Ammro H. - "I am not sure if I agree with the approach taken in the mock video. Should FB build a tablet? is not the same as "Design FB tablet." This is an analytical decision question, not a design question. I would have done strategic analysis using Porter's five forces or maybe SWOT and value chain analysis to decide rather than designing a product.
My answer will be to examine critical factors to decide to build tablet vs. to build apps for existing non-FB tablets (ipads and android tablets)
Users"See full answer
"Honestly, I was a bit all over the place with this one. My structure was:
Meta Mission
Audiences
Thinking about journeys and pain points (TAM + Unmet Needs)
Brainstorm solutions
Prioritize solutions
MVP - Measure of success
Risks and tradeoffs
The interviewer kept trying to derail the conversation. I chose Group Volunteers (a group of people who want to volunteer together) as the audience, and in hindsight it was a poor choice. Because I chose that over individuals, I couldn't narrow down"
Brody C. - "Honestly, I was a bit all over the place with this one. My structure was:
Meta Mission
Audiences
Thinking about journeys and pain points (TAM + Unmet Needs)
Brainstorm solutions
Prioritize solutions
MVP - Measure of success
Risks and tradeoffs
The interviewer kept trying to derail the conversation. I chose Group Volunteers (a group of people who want to volunteer together) as the audience, and in hindsight it was a poor choice. Because I chose that over individuals, I couldn't narrow down"See full answer
"Clarifying questions
#1: What does "investment" mean?
#2: Verification badge already exists or not?
#3: A verification badge is a special symbol (like a checkmark), usually displayed next to the username to identify/verify that an account with this badge is an authentic public figure or brand. It is NOT a way for Instagram to endorse the "importance" of verified accounts. Is this accurate? Anything else I should know of as a PM regarding the definition?
**Assumption: Verification badge alre"
nikilukman - "Clarifying questions
#1: What does "investment" mean?
#2: Verification badge already exists or not?
#3: A verification badge is a special symbol (like a checkmark), usually displayed next to the username to identify/verify that an account with this badge is an authentic public figure or brand. It is NOT a way for Instagram to endorse the "importance" of verified accounts. Is this accurate? Anything else I should know of as a PM regarding the definition?
**Assumption: Verification badge alre"See full answer
"Clarified on definition of hyperlocal - Defined it as a community of people in a 2-3 km radius and assumed geography as India
Talked about different type of community needs in a hyperlocal space - public services, local grocery delivery, food delivery, parcel delivery, making new friends for shared interests like playing badminton (Prioritised public services since it was underserved with respect to things like sewage cleaning, electricity outage in an area, community traffic problems, water"
KAI - "Clarified on definition of hyperlocal - Defined it as a community of people in a 2-3 km radius and assumed geography as India
Talked about different type of community needs in a hyperlocal space - public services, local grocery delivery, food delivery, parcel delivery, making new friends for shared interests like playing badminton (Prioritised public services since it was underserved with respect to things like sewage cleaning, electricity outage in an area, community traffic problems, water"See full answer
"int main()
{
int a1[7]={1,2,3,4,5,6,7};
int a2[7]={1,9,10,11,12,13,14};
vectorv;
v.insert(v.begin(),begin(a1),end(a1));
v.insert(v.begin(),begin(a2),end(a2));
int a3[v.size()];
sort(v.begin(),v.end());
for(int i=0;i<v.size();i++)
{
a3[i]=v[i];
}
}
`"
Aryan D. - "int main()
{
int a1[7]={1,2,3,4,5,6,7};
int a2[7]={1,9,10,11,12,13,14};
vectorv;
v.insert(v.begin(),begin(a1),end(a1));
v.insert(v.begin(),begin(a2),end(a2));
int a3[v.size()];
sort(v.begin(),v.end());
for(int i=0;i<v.size();i++)
{
a3[i]=v[i];
}
}
`"See full answer
"Clarifying questions and assumptions:
Personalised news feed is the culmination of curated posts, events, ads , videos, etc that is unique to each user. potentially this means that no 2 feeds are the same.
I am assuming we are talking about the Facebook Blue app, since the term Newsfeed is generally associated with this app although the feed on Insta too is personalised.
Thank you for this question.
here is how i would structure my thoughts on arriving at success metrics for Personalised Ne"
Sneha S. - "Clarifying questions and assumptions:
Personalised news feed is the culmination of curated posts, events, ads , videos, etc that is unique to each user. potentially this means that no 2 feeds are the same.
I am assuming we are talking about the Facebook Blue app, since the term Newsfeed is generally associated with this app although the feed on Insta too is personalised.
Thank you for this question.
here is how i would structure my thoughts on arriving at success metrics for Personalised Ne"See full answer
"Measure Success of FB rooms.
First I would like to clarify my understanding of the product:
FB Rooms is a video call product similar to zoom in which a user can create a room and then invite people to join either with Facebook, if they are already friends or with a link or invite.
Able to use filters and virtual backgrounds
Now that we have aligned on the understanding of the product, I would like to think about the goals for the product.
Goals:
Business goals:
Rooms was FB’s"
Kiley S. - "Measure Success of FB rooms.
First I would like to clarify my understanding of the product:
FB Rooms is a video call product similar to zoom in which a user can create a room and then invite people to join either with Facebook, if they are already friends or with a link or invite.
Able to use filters and virtual backgrounds
Now that we have aligned on the understanding of the product, I would like to think about the goals for the product.
Goals:
Business goals:
Rooms was FB’s"See full answer
"i asked if she meant operations business analytics metrics.. she clarified that she meant operational/stability metrics.. i explained that i used dynatrace to monitor the product and she said i want to know about SLAs etc. she was looking for the words SLA SLO and SLI.. i then explained SLA 99.99% various SLO's contributed to it like system uptime, continous testing of business functions, and incident mgmt metrics."
Sayee M. - "i asked if she meant operations business analytics metrics.. she clarified that she meant operational/stability metrics.. i explained that i used dynatrace to monitor the product and she said i want to know about SLAs etc. she was looking for the words SLA SLO and SLI.. i then explained SLA 99.99% various SLO's contributed to it like system uptime, continous testing of business functions, and incident mgmt metrics."See full answer
"talked about a time when customer is trying to go to cloud for first time and championing the effort.. it is strategic and also a risk because outside of the OEM, no one we know had implemented this product architecture on the cloud..
used first [principles, did a crawl, walk jog approach and implemented it. Risk because of lack of reference architecture, clodu tech was new to me . career making/breaking project for customer.
result : project was successful. presented story in a conference."
Sayee M. - "talked about a time when customer is trying to go to cloud for first time and championing the effort.. it is strategic and also a risk because outside of the OEM, no one we know had implemented this product architecture on the cloud..
used first [principles, did a crawl, walk jog approach and implemented it. Risk because of lack of reference architecture, clodu tech was new to me . career making/breaking project for customer.
result : project was successful. presented story in a conference."See full answer