"When I transitioned from the Analytics team to the Product team, I faced challenges in gaining the trust of the engineering team. Having previously worked with them in a role where I provided insights rather than defining their priorities, they were initially hesitant to accept my inputs in my new role. This led to some misalignment, as they chose to focus on tasks independently rather than incorporating my recommendations.
Recognizing the need to build credibility, I took a proactive approach."
Shahrukh K. - "When I transitioned from the Analytics team to the Product team, I faced challenges in gaining the trust of the engineering team. Having previously worked with them in a role where I provided insights rather than defining their priorities, they were initially hesitant to accept my inputs in my new role. This led to some misalignment, as they chose to focus on tasks independently rather than incorporating my recommendations.
Recognizing the need to build credibility, I took a proactive approach."See full answer
"Clarify:
Product: physical/ digital? - digital
chefs as a profession? what kind of restaurant setting do they work in?
speed up cooking why/ objective? - serve customers quickly? reduce their fatigue? help them spend time on other important activities?
what is cooking process - getting order - knowing recipe - executing - placing in dish - should I consider serving or that will be including in the waitor's job?
By how much do we want to speed up?
who are we?
any constraints?"
Rev - "Clarify:
Product: physical/ digital? - digital
chefs as a profession? what kind of restaurant setting do they work in?
speed up cooking why/ objective? - serve customers quickly? reduce their fatigue? help them spend time on other important activities?
what is cooking process - getting order - knowing recipe - executing - placing in dish - should I consider serving or that will be including in the waitor's job?
By how much do we want to speed up?
who are we?
any constraints?"See full answer
"This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them.
I think my three greatest strengths are:
Empathy
Openness to feedback
Drive
And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are:
Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting
Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time
Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"
Adam M. - "This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them.
I think my three greatest strengths are:
Empathy
Openness to feedback
Drive
And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are:
Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting
Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time
Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"See full answer
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"Clarifying question: Why would google want to sunset Youtube? What would the business objective be?
Based on how the interviewer responds this could go down multiple paths:
If they said just because, then I would address the current state data for the YouTube business.
Material benefits:
XX Million active users
$$ in Annual revenue
$$ in subscription revenue
$$ monetization through influencers
Non-material benefits that align to google core values:
Democracy on the web works"
Aditi N. - "Clarifying question: Why would google want to sunset Youtube? What would the business objective be?
Based on how the interviewer responds this could go down multiple paths:
If they said just because, then I would address the current state data for the YouTube business.
Material benefits:
XX Million active users
$$ in Annual revenue
$$ in subscription revenue
$$ monetization through influencers
Non-material benefits that align to google core values:
Democracy on the web works"See full answer
"You can ask some clarifying questions like
1) Ask if the list is already sorted or not
2) is zero included in the list ?
3) Natural numbers are usually positive numbers ( clarify they are non negatives)
Solution :
1) If sorted use two pointers and sort them in O(N)
2) if not sorted , -ve / only +ve numbers in the list doesn't matter - the easiest solution is
Use a priority queue and push the number and its square in each iteration
Finally return the list returned by the priority Queue. N"
Bless M. - "You can ask some clarifying questions like
1) Ask if the list is already sorted or not
2) is zero included in the list ?
3) Natural numbers are usually positive numbers ( clarify they are non negatives)
Solution :
1) If sorted use two pointers and sort them in O(N)
2) if not sorted , -ve / only +ve numbers in the list doesn't matter - the easiest solution is
Use a priority queue and push the number and its square in each iteration
Finally return the list returned by the priority Queue. N"See full answer
"I'd ask Clarification questions here before proceeding with designing a CDN.
The questions would be.
What is the Use Case with multiple questions in it
What sort of Content do you want to serve - Static files or Streaming Media or trending content?
How many regions do you want to cover
Do you want to prioritize speed and the Latest file availability or do you want to prioritize time-based caching per region?
Budget constraints(push cdn's can be cheaper).
Whether"
Manas M. - "I'd ask Clarification questions here before proceeding with designing a CDN.
The questions would be.
What is the Use Case with multiple questions in it
What sort of Content do you want to serve - Static files or Streaming Media or trending content?
How many regions do you want to cover
Do you want to prioritize speed and the Latest file availability or do you want to prioritize time-based caching per region?
Budget constraints(push cdn's can be cheaper).
Whether"See full answer
"Clarifying question?
What is GCP and what does it mean to create a new GCP region in Portugal?
GCP is Google Cloud Portugal. Creating a new region means creating data centres (clouds) which can be used as hosts.
Is there a business objective to consider Portugal for a new region?
None in particular
Structure:
Explore internal factors
Is there a particular business goal that we are trying to accomplish like goal of getting more business from EU companies in coming few years? If yes"
S Y. - "Clarifying question?
What is GCP and what does it mean to create a new GCP region in Portugal?
GCP is Google Cloud Portugal. Creating a new region means creating data centres (clouds) which can be used as hosts.
Is there a business objective to consider Portugal for a new region?
None in particular
Structure:
Explore internal factors
Is there a particular business goal that we are trying to accomplish like goal of getting more business from EU companies in coming few years? If yes"See full answer
"Goal/Vission of company
Understanding of Whatsapp -> Whatsapp platform for people where they can connect with people remotely, they can chat with them, they can do a video call, they can send pdf, location, contacts, etc. Basically, clarify your understanding of WhatsApp.
Whatsapp Goal -> connecting the people remotely in a hassle-free manner
Vission 3-4 years down the line -> More engagement and retention of the users.
For this vision what is the user's intended action
Define"
Anonymous Muskox - "Goal/Vission of company
Understanding of Whatsapp -> Whatsapp platform for people where they can connect with people remotely, they can chat with them, they can do a video call, they can send pdf, location, contacts, etc. Basically, clarify your understanding of WhatsApp.
Whatsapp Goal -> connecting the people remotely in a hassle-free manner
Vission 3-4 years down the line -> More engagement and retention of the users.
For this vision what is the user's intended action
Define"See full answer
"Clarifying questions
Do we mean the Google Play store or Apple App store or some other app store? : Google Play Store
Do we mean to calculate the number of apps as in 2024? : yes
Are we looking at any particular data slices like in a particular country/ for a particular geography etc.? : No, I want the overall global number
And we mean to calculate total number of apps that are registered on Play Store and can be searched and accessed by a user, am i right? : Yes
Okay, here's how"
Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions
Do we mean the Google Play store or Apple App store or some other app store? : Google Play Store
Do we mean to calculate the number of apps as in 2024? : yes
Are we looking at any particular data slices like in a particular country/ for a particular geography etc.? : No, I want the overall global number
And we mean to calculate total number of apps that are registered on Play Store and can be searched and accessed by a user, am i right? : Yes
Okay, here's how"See full answer
"Google mission is to organize worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Keeping that in mind will focus on what should be the solve for emerging market.
Clarification: Any specific country Google is thinking about ?
Answer: lets say Ghana it has come often as one of the fast emerging markets and untapped
Clarification: Goal is monetization or growth
Answer: We are entering the market so growth
Based on the clarification above I will think about user segments, p"
Sumeet R. - "Google mission is to organize worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Keeping that in mind will focus on what should be the solve for emerging market.
Clarification: Any specific country Google is thinking about ?
Answer: lets say Ghana it has come often as one of the fast emerging markets and untapped
Clarification: Goal is monetization or growth
Answer: We are entering the market so growth
Based on the clarification above I will think about user segments, p"See full answer
"I will start with discussing the Google mission statement, which is to organize the world's information and make it easily accessible to everyone to help them get things done, and make their day a bit easier.
I will think about building something that will leapfrog this mission.
Google has already organized all of the world's public digital information in the current state. There are opportunities to get more information into a digital form. But there are also significant improvements in mak"
Praveen - "I will start with discussing the Google mission statement, which is to organize the world's information and make it easily accessible to everyone to help them get things done, and make their day a bit easier.
I will think about building something that will leapfrog this mission.
Google has already organized all of the world's public digital information in the current state. There are opportunities to get more information into a digital form. But there are also significant improvements in mak"See full answer
"wasn't aware of ticketmaster thus asked time from interviewer to glance through the portal, also cross-checked any other value prop from the interviewer that i couldn't infer from website, for ex. providing assurance of confirmed tickets.
clarifying questions -
who am i?
do we want to partner with another player or provide services on our own?
any specific goal - monetization, engagement, retention etc. in mind?
any particular geo?
"
coolkid1 - "wasn't aware of ticketmaster thus asked time from interviewer to glance through the portal, also cross-checked any other value prop from the interviewer that i couldn't infer from website, for ex. providing assurance of confirmed tickets.
clarifying questions -
who am i?
do we want to partner with another player or provide services on our own?
any specific goal - monetization, engagement, retention etc. in mind?
any particular geo?
"See full answer
"Thanks!
First let me ask some clarifying questions:
Do you mean mobile app? TV app? I will assume mobile and TV included.
When I'm playing the role of the CEO, should I consider their current business' state? Yes I should.
Is there a goal I should aim for as CEO? Yes we want to maximize retention on our app.
My favorite 3 apps are:
Google Translate
Collectr
Peloton
I love these app because they help me out tremendously weekly!
Google Translate is a free a"
Gabriel R. - "Thanks!
First let me ask some clarifying questions:
Do you mean mobile app? TV app? I will assume mobile and TV included.
When I'm playing the role of the CEO, should I consider their current business' state? Yes I should.
Is there a goal I should aim for as CEO? Yes we want to maximize retention on our app.
My favorite 3 apps are:
Google Translate
Collectr
Peloton
I love these app because they help me out tremendously weekly!
Google Translate is a free a"See full answer
"Clarify:
More about google online tutoring service? - content type, is it recorded/ live, certified/ at own pace/ paid, unpaid, etc.?
Objective of this service? Organise world's info & make it accessible & useful, any other objective?
What is the revenue model?
Competition?
Region/ geography?
Constraints?
Approach:
Awareness about the product & job openings: Print & Digital media, ads via google products
Accessibility to apply
LinkedIn/ Google careers page, post"
Rev - "Clarify:
More about google online tutoring service? - content type, is it recorded/ live, certified/ at own pace/ paid, unpaid, etc.?
Objective of this service? Organise world's info & make it accessible & useful, any other objective?
What is the revenue model?
Competition?
Region/ geography?
Constraints?
Approach:
Awareness about the product & job openings: Print & Digital media, ads via google products
Accessibility to apply
LinkedIn/ Google careers page, post"See full answer