Meta Interview Questions

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

Michelle B. - "I would analise it in some macro and micro aspects and then evaluate those, and think abou an release strategy. First considering the macro aspects that are: what is the main business goal and is the product addressing it? what is the user value and how the product is working towards this? And by last, what is the success metric, and how likely the product as it is, is in the way of accomplish it? Then, if those macro aspects are on track, I would go for a second round of analysis, to ev"See full answer

Ina K. - "HashMap supports insert, search, delete and retrieve in O(1). It stores data as key value pairs."See full answer

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

Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical change rather than one already built. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature **Apply a UX flow to drive an"See full answer

Priyanka V. - "Facebook groups operate to inculcate community interaction. I would deep dive into the current user behavior to understand a lot more User journey User age groups that show most activity Usage of features Dominant topics Any other data point that will provide insight to usage statics Based on above findings, I would devise a feature that would target increasing retention/time spent on the groups by incentivizing high performing user and/or user groups. Some examples of features"See full answer

Rishabh R. - "if decreasing arr, start from end and keep checking if next element increases by 1 or not. wherever not, put that value there."See full answer

Bhavana J. - "Clarifying questions: What is the travel experience? International/ domestic travel for company work or local commute to the office? Is there any specific metric that we are targeting? Assuming that interviewer says no metric is defined and we are talking about domestic and international travel for company purposes. I'm going to assume that covid disrupting travel is something that I have to keep in mind but that we are also thinking about how things will be improved in the longer run (i"See full answer