"Candidate [Clarifying Question 1] - Does success metric needs to be discussed across any particular stage of user life cycle - Growth , Engagement or Monetisation ?
Interviewer - Let's focus on overall health metrics of the product.
Candidate[Clarifying Question 2] : Does the metrics needs to be presented as an update to CXO in quarterly meetings or monthly meetings or it needs to be presented internally to product / marketing team for detailed analysis ?
Interviewer - Let's sa"
Vivek S. - "Candidate [Clarifying Question 1] - Does success metric needs to be discussed across any particular stage of user life cycle - Growth , Engagement or Monetisation ?
Interviewer - Let's focus on overall health metrics of the product.
Candidate[Clarifying Question 2] : Does the metrics needs to be presented as an update to CXO in quarterly meetings or monthly meetings or it needs to be presented internally to product / marketing team for detailed analysis ?
Interviewer - Let's sa"See full answer
"Used Recursive approach to traverse the binary search tree and sum the values of the nodes that fall within the specified range [low, high]"
Srikant V. - "Used Recursive approach to traverse the binary search tree and sum the values of the nodes that fall within the specified range [low, high]"See full answer
"after completing my project, I asked my manager for feedback on my performance. My aim was to identify areas for improvement, and learn more about new technologies which are in the"
Sugrim S. - "after completing my project, I asked my manager for feedback on my performance. My aim was to identify areas for improvement, and learn more about new technologies which are in the"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions:
Assuming this will be part of FB product.
Assuming this is for the US and no major constraints in terms of finances or resources.
Goal: To improve user engagement
Travel Personas:
Solo personal Traveler
Group personal Travelers
Business travelers
Tour operators
Transportation Companies (airlines, roadways, trains etc).
Choosing to focus on group travelers because most personal travelers usually travel in groups and the volume of this user base"
P K. - "Clarifying Questions:
Assuming this will be part of FB product.
Assuming this is for the US and no major constraints in terms of finances or resources.
Goal: To improve user engagement
Travel Personas:
Solo personal Traveler
Group personal Travelers
Business travelers
Tour operators
Transportation Companies (airlines, roadways, trains etc).
Choosing to focus on group travelers because most personal travelers usually travel in groups and the volume of this user base"See full answer
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"Interviewer: Design a Meta Product for space travel.
Me: I would first likely ask a few clarifying questions. Can we discuss more about what do we mean by a product for space travel? Is it like a physical product or a software product? Any existing suite of products that we want to integrate this into?
Interviewer: It can be a digital platform – a combination of software and services, integrated in a single ecosystem. It's not a physical product like a spacecraft, but rather a pla"
Ankit M. - "Interviewer: Design a Meta Product for space travel.
Me: I would first likely ask a few clarifying questions. Can we discuss more about what do we mean by a product for space travel? Is it like a physical product or a software product? Any existing suite of products that we want to integrate this into?
Interviewer: It can be a digital platform – a combination of software and services, integrated in a single ecosystem. It's not a physical product like a spacecraft, but rather a pla"See full answer
"Clarify:
Zoom for business - we are referring to Zoom meetings for enterprise customers
Are there any specific features or goals we want to track. Assumption - We are at overall zoom business for enterprise customers
Is there any particular geography or demographics we want to look at - Assumption - we are looking at across the globe
Goals:
Zoom allows users to conduct meetings internally and externally with folks across the organization. Enterprise customers access Zoom with their cor"
Sahil A. - "Clarify:
Zoom for business - we are referring to Zoom meetings for enterprise customers
Are there any specific features or goals we want to track. Assumption - We are at overall zoom business for enterprise customers
Is there any particular geography or demographics we want to look at - Assumption - we are looking at across the globe
Goals:
Zoom allows users to conduct meetings internally and externally with folks across the organization. Enterprise customers access Zoom with their cor"See full answer
"Define: How is daily post view calculated
Isolate Issues:
Data issue
Time period
Geo
IOS vs Android vs Web
Correlated Metrics in the funnel
DAU
Time spent/ scrolls
Engagement - likes, comments
External factors
Competitor actions
Big events
Internal factors
Product launch
Feature change"
Steve Y. - "Define: How is daily post view calculated
Isolate Issues:
Data issue
Time period
Geo
IOS vs Android vs Web
Correlated Metrics in the funnel
DAU
Time spent/ scrolls
Engagement - likes, comments
External factors
Competitor actions
Big events
Internal factors
Product launch
Feature change"See full answer
"I watched a couple of videos like this, one of them by Exponent staff (I think). It was disappointing that the architecture diagram and the walkthrough was a general layered architecture that you can apply to any backend system. I was wondering if there are videos that can be considered a reference material to watch, learn and improve on the tech (sys design) skills, and not so much about the soft skills."
BriskD - "I watched a couple of videos like this, one of them by Exponent staff (I think). It was disappointing that the architecture diagram and the walkthrough was a general layered architecture that you can apply to any backend system. I was wondering if there are videos that can be considered a reference material to watch, learn and improve on the tech (sys design) skills, and not so much about the soft skills."See full answer
"First, I want to get a better sense of what is a DAU. What is considered “Active”? User sending message, reading message, opening app?
All of the them, any activity within the Messenger App
Second, it’s important to know the context of the change. What timeframe was this over?
Let’s assume this was over the past 30 days.
Ok, a follow up to this would be to check if this is a seasonal pattern? For example, there could be a correlation to Messenger usage and school starting.
**This"
Michael A. - "First, I want to get a better sense of what is a DAU. What is considered “Active”? User sending message, reading message, opening app?
All of the them, any activity within the Messenger App
Second, it’s important to know the context of the change. What timeframe was this over?
Let’s assume this was over the past 30 days.
Ok, a follow up to this would be to check if this is a seasonal pattern? For example, there could be a correlation to Messenger usage and school starting.
**This"See full answer
"How would you monetize messenger?
Clarifying Questions
Is this messenger app or web?
INTERVIEWER: Assume both are a possibility, but feel free to pick one
Is there a larger facebook goal or metric we are optimizing for?
INTERVIEWER: Monetization speaks to revenue so assume goal is to increase revenue for Facebook as a whole
Does this include messenger Rooms or should we stick to the traditional FB messenger?
INTERVIEWER: _Messenger rooms is a great call out, but let's stick"
Jay C. - "How would you monetize messenger?
Clarifying Questions
Is this messenger app or web?
INTERVIEWER: Assume both are a possibility, but feel free to pick one
Is there a larger facebook goal or metric we are optimizing for?
INTERVIEWER: Monetization speaks to revenue so assume goal is to increase revenue for Facebook as a whole
Does this include messenger Rooms or should we stick to the traditional FB messenger?
INTERVIEWER: _Messenger rooms is a great call out, but let's stick"See full answer
"Clarifying question to make sure that I'm analyzing the right feature - is this the notification bell that is in the Facebook app and site? (assume Yes) Tapping on it opens a drop-down that captures items and activities that the user should be aware of? (Yes) Ok, I believe I'm clear on which feature you're referring to.
My approach:
Customer problem and value proposition
Meta's mission and north star metric
Customer journey and notification bell use case
Success metrics on value del"
Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question to make sure that I'm analyzing the right feature - is this the notification bell that is in the Facebook app and site? (assume Yes) Tapping on it opens a drop-down that captures items and activities that the user should be aware of? (Yes) Ok, I believe I'm clear on which feature you're referring to.
My approach:
Customer problem and value proposition
Meta's mission and north star metric
Customer journey and notification bell use case
Success metrics on value del"See full answer
"Assuming this is meant to be a standalone product. Its a standalone app.
Goal: Simplify the shopping experience in store for a user.
Success would be defined in terms of app usage as a proxy for user satisfaction.
I want to think about the a given user segment, their pain points, ways to improve their pain and a way to evaluate those solutions.
Broadly user personas associated with grocery shopping are - stores and customers.
For the purpose of this interview I want to focus on customer se"
P K. - "Assuming this is meant to be a standalone product. Its a standalone app.
Goal: Simplify the shopping experience in store for a user.
Success would be defined in terms of app usage as a proxy for user satisfaction.
I want to think about the a given user segment, their pain points, ways to improve their pain and a way to evaluate those solutions.
Broadly user personas associated with grocery shopping are - stores and customers.
For the purpose of this interview I want to focus on customer se"See full answer
"Assumptions
Assume that the functionality of Meta Pay is the ability to send and receive payments to other Meta account holders. Payment infrastructure connects to bank accounts
Assume users can maintain a balance in Meta Pay
Assume life cycle of the product is post launch adoption phase
Clarifying questions
Can I send or receive payments to a meta user from a different platform? e.g., fb to IG > assume the answers is “yes”
Where is it available? > Assume answer is “US”
"
Philip C. - "Assumptions
Assume that the functionality of Meta Pay is the ability to send and receive payments to other Meta account holders. Payment infrastructure connects to bank accounts
Assume users can maintain a balance in Meta Pay
Assume life cycle of the product is post launch adoption phase
Clarifying questions
Can I send or receive payments to a meta user from a different platform? e.g., fb to IG > assume the answers is “yes”
Where is it available? > Assume answer is “US”
"See full answer
"To answer why Spotify introduced Podcasts, I would like to use 3C framework- Customer, Competitors and Company.
Customers
We have seen Spotify has a high WAU. This means users are engaged to the platform for music.
Listeners need some new trend to listen to while going to the gym for example, or being stuck in a traffic. Sense of listening to something productive is what users need these days.
Podcasts are lesser commitment than audiobooks because of short episode length"
Simran M. - "To answer why Spotify introduced Podcasts, I would like to use 3C framework- Customer, Competitors and Company.
Customers
We have seen Spotify has a high WAU. This means users are engaged to the platform for music.
Listeners need some new trend to listen to while going to the gym for example, or being stuck in a traffic. Sense of listening to something productive is what users need these days.
Podcasts are lesser commitment than audiobooks because of short episode length"See full answer
"C : Okay. So I would want to start with knowing what is the product for which we have to build a recommendation system.
I : This is a photo sharing product.
C : Okay. So is this something on the lines of Instagram?
I : Yes
C : Okay. And are we a new product co or we have some current product built already?
I : You can assume yourself.
C : Okay. Is there any demography or country we are targeting?
I : No, this is a global product
C : Okay. So, the biggest goal of any product recommendation system"
Kartikeya N. - "C : Okay. So I would want to start with knowing what is the product for which we have to build a recommendation system.
I : This is a photo sharing product.
C : Okay. So is this something on the lines of Instagram?
I : Yes
C : Okay. And are we a new product co or we have some current product built already?
I : You can assume yourself.
C : Okay. Is there any demography or country we are targeting?
I : No, this is a global product
C : Okay. So, the biggest goal of any product recommendation system"See full answer
"First, lets dive deeper into the question. I would ask -
What are the top challenges facedtoday?
What user segments work well, and what do we want to focus on?
What do we know about competitors, and what can we learn from them?
What user flows have the highest engagement in VR today?
Are we focusing on consumer use cases or enterprise?
Are we tackling activation or retention, or do we want to increase engagement?
To build a strategy here I would target this from four differe"
Anonymous Minnow - "First, lets dive deeper into the question. I would ask -
What are the top challenges facedtoday?
What user segments work well, and what do we want to focus on?
What do we know about competitors, and what can we learn from them?
What user flows have the highest engagement in VR today?
Are we focusing on consumer use cases or enterprise?
Are we tackling activation or retention, or do we want to increase engagement?
To build a strategy here I would target this from four differe"See full answer