"Clarifying Questions:
Is it a chain of supermarkets? Or just an individual market?
Is the revenue overall or just from one store?
What are the reasons for the revenue growth? Pandemic? New buildings around? Other?
What does the supermarket sell? Anything specialized? Local goods?
Is there an app/website available to order stuff?
10,000 - 50,000
Vision: Be the most customer centric store
Goals:
Able to reach out to as many users as they can.
Increase the user base while keeping th"
Anonymous Reindeer - "Clarifying Questions:
Is it a chain of supermarkets? Or just an individual market?
Is the revenue overall or just from one store?
What are the reasons for the revenue growth? Pandemic? New buildings around? Other?
What does the supermarket sell? Anything specialized? Local goods?
Is there an app/website available to order stuff?
10,000 - 50,000
Vision: Be the most customer centric store
Goals:
Able to reach out to as many users as they can.
Increase the user base while keeping th"See full answer
"Clarifying questions:
Who is launching this service (some options that come to mind are):
Google ? If yes, why? Will it be a new product within the Google ecosystem or feature within existing and relevant Google Products (google maps, search)
Startup? What is the current status of the startup/service designing it for hotels
Uber/Taxi service providers - Trying to diversify their revenue stream/ add new level of engagement?
Hospitality companies/hotels?
B"
Deepti D. - "Clarifying questions:
Who is launching this service (some options that come to mind are):
Google ? If yes, why? Will it be a new product within the Google ecosystem or feature within existing and relevant Google Products (google maps, search)
Startup? What is the current status of the startup/service designing it for hotels
Uber/Taxi service providers - Trying to diversify their revenue stream/ add new level of engagement?
Hospitality companies/hotels?
B"See full answer
"Clarify question and state assumptions:
Streetview from my understanding is compiled by a streetview car going out and taking multiple photos and then Google stitches this together to give us streetview.
I'm only going to look at the streetview outdoor experience, I know for e.g Google also has full views of some businesses, malls, museums etc so for the purposes of this I'm not going to calculate this.
For the purposes of this is it OK if we say how much storage required to store streetview"
Varun - "Clarify question and state assumptions:
Streetview from my understanding is compiled by a streetview car going out and taking multiple photos and then Google stitches this together to give us streetview.
I'm only going to look at the streetview outdoor experience, I know for e.g Google also has full views of some businesses, malls, museums etc so for the purposes of this I'm not going to calculate this.
For the purposes of this is it OK if we say how much storage required to store streetview"See full answer
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"3 fav products. Pick 1 and 10X it.
My criteria:
Add value to my life
Easy to use
My fav products:
Pinterest
Youtube
Google Docs
How would you 10X Youtube?
Interviewee: 10X revenue? 10X user base? 10X sales?
Interviewer: you can decide
Interviewee: Ok, let’s discuss Youtube's mission and goal and we will determine which direction to proceed after
Youtube: Global product. Has Red,Music,Kids,Premium. Subscription and Ads. 5B videos watched per day. 80% market share
Missio"
Cameron P. - "3 fav products. Pick 1 and 10X it.
My criteria:
Add value to my life
Easy to use
My fav products:
Pinterest
Youtube
Google Docs
How would you 10X Youtube?
Interviewee: 10X revenue? 10X user base? 10X sales?
Interviewer: you can decide
Interviewee: Ok, let’s discuss Youtube's mission and goal and we will determine which direction to proceed after
Youtube: Global product. Has Red,Music,Kids,Premium. Subscription and Ads. 5B videos watched per day. 80% market share
Missio"See full answer
"THIS QUESTION IS FROM AMAZON
STRUCTURE OF THE ANSWER
ARTICULATE YOUR IDEA
WHY IS IT WORTH ADVOCATING
ACHIEVING THE IDEA
THE RESULTS AND IMPACT FOR THE COMPANY FROM THIS IDEA.
AND ADD THE CHERRY ON THE TOP I HAVE A PRESENTATION MADE TO PRESENT YOUR IDEAS INTO A COMPELLING WAY"
Lea M. - "THIS QUESTION IS FROM AMAZON
STRUCTURE OF THE ANSWER
ARTICULATE YOUR IDEA
WHY IS IT WORTH ADVOCATING
ACHIEVING THE IDEA
THE RESULTS AND IMPACT FOR THE COMPANY FROM THIS IDEA.
AND ADD THE CHERRY ON THE TOP I HAVE A PRESENTATION MADE TO PRESENT YOUR IDEAS INTO A COMPELLING WAY"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions:
How far is the retirement home from the convenience store?
What part of the world is this convenience store located in?
Will this be designed for Boomer generation or later generations when they retire?
We assume that the convenience store is right next door, is located in the US in a very suburban location, and is designed for the Boomer generation that is retired/retiring
Users:
We assume retirement homes, or assisted living facilities take in folks who"
Anonymous Parakeet - "Clarifying Questions:
How far is the retirement home from the convenience store?
What part of the world is this convenience store located in?
Will this be designed for Boomer generation or later generations when they retire?
We assume that the convenience store is right next door, is located in the US in a very suburban location, and is designed for the Boomer generation that is retired/retiring
Users:
We assume retirement homes, or assisted living facilities take in folks who"See full answer
"An effective PM should be clear about the vision and mission. Faciliate the team to achieve its goals by unblocking the obstacles. Smart enought to figure out Risks and should plan effectively to mitigate the risks. Good listener and communicator .Should be able to empower the team , appreciative ,positive minded and with empathy for everyone"
D B. - "An effective PM should be clear about the vision and mission. Faciliate the team to achieve its goals by unblocking the obstacles. Smart enought to figure out Risks and should plan effectively to mitigate the risks. Good listener and communicator .Should be able to empower the team , appreciative ,positive minded and with empathy for everyone"See full answer
"Improve facebook’s feed.
Clarifying questions:
Do we want to look at desktop or mobile specifically? – Mobile
Is there a specific goal we have in mind that we are trying to meet or just general improvements? — General improvements, innovation
Clarify Product:
The Facebook newsfeed is the content feed that users see when landing on the app. The feed shows content posted by people users follow
Within the feed the user is offered updates on people they follow - friends, family, celebrities"
Kiley S. - "Improve facebook’s feed.
Clarifying questions:
Do we want to look at desktop or mobile specifically? – Mobile
Is there a specific goal we have in mind that we are trying to meet or just general improvements? — General improvements, innovation
Clarify Product:
The Facebook newsfeed is the content feed that users see when landing on the app. The feed shows content posted by people users follow
Within the feed the user is offered updates on people they follow - friends, family, celebrities"See full answer
"Goal Clarification
Let’s start by clarifying the goals on the in-flight entertainment system. My assumption is that the goal to enhance/improve the in-flight customer experience and increase passenger loyalty rather than generating additional revenue.
User Segments
We can broadly segment the customers into
casual traveler
frequent traveler
frequent business
frequent leisure travelers
Given that frequent business traveler account for the highest airline revenue"
Kunal S. - "Goal Clarification
Let’s start by clarifying the goals on the in-flight entertainment system. My assumption is that the goal to enhance/improve the in-flight customer experience and increase passenger loyalty rather than generating additional revenue.
User Segments
We can broadly segment the customers into
casual traveler
frequent traveler
frequent business
frequent leisure travelers
Given that frequent business traveler account for the highest airline revenue"See full answer
"Get alignment with interviewer on how Gen AI works, then talk about the automotive space with value chain analysis on high level: 1. Design the automobile 2. Source components 3 assemble 4. Market 5. sell to customer 6 vehicle operation and maintenance.
Competition: Hyper competitive industry with ~10 big manufacturers in the world.
Trends: EV, Self-driving
Potential Goals for the Automotive company Gen AI use case:
Gain market share by offering Gen AI driven value to its customers Bi"
Tony A. - "Get alignment with interviewer on how Gen AI works, then talk about the automotive space with value chain analysis on high level: 1. Design the automobile 2. Source components 3 assemble 4. Market 5. sell to customer 6 vehicle operation and maintenance.
Competition: Hyper competitive industry with ~10 big manufacturers in the world.
Trends: EV, Self-driving
Potential Goals for the Automotive company Gen AI use case:
Gain market share by offering Gen AI driven value to its customers Bi"See full answer
"Assumption: This restaurant space already exists in Business campus. Hence assuming that necessary electrical, security and plumbing works are already completed.
I will use the following approach
Discovery: Understand the number of employees, their demographic profile (age/location/gender), food preferences, rush hours, and preferred mode of payment etc. This information can be gathered through an online survey.
Planning: Finalize the staffing, restaurant layout, develop food catalog/"
Saket S. - "Assumption: This restaurant space already exists in Business campus. Hence assuming that necessary electrical, security and plumbing works are already completed.
I will use the following approach
Discovery: Understand the number of employees, their demographic profile (age/location/gender), food preferences, rush hours, and preferred mode of payment etc. This information can be gathered through an online survey.
Planning: Finalize the staffing, restaurant layout, develop food catalog/"See full answer
"I'm seeking a role in which I can be continually challenged to devise innovative and streamlined solutions for complex issues, particularly with regard to the persistent soaking problem. I'm excited about the opportunity to not only excel in my own performance but also to empower and enable my colleagues to perform at their absolute best. My goal is to wield my influence and magnetic qualities to not only attract but also retain top-tier engineering talent, all in alignment with our shared objec"
Anonymous Narwhal - "I'm seeking a role in which I can be continually challenged to devise innovative and streamlined solutions for complex issues, particularly with regard to the persistent soaking problem. I'm excited about the opportunity to not only excel in my own performance but also to empower and enable my colleagues to perform at their absolute best. My goal is to wield my influence and magnetic qualities to not only attract but also retain top-tier engineering talent, all in alignment with our shared objec"See full answer
"Lets see, what kind of cost does google have to incur to run google photos. To think about this clearly, I want to think as if I was going to setup Google Photos now and it doesn't exist till today.
Cost for Building software and maintaining it
Cost for acquiring users
Cost for keeping the data of users safe and accessible
Miscellaneous
Now lets come back to today where Google photos clearly exist and I will think about the costing in each of these sections.
Google photos s"
Anubhav A. - "Lets see, what kind of cost does google have to incur to run google photos. To think about this clearly, I want to think as if I was going to setup Google Photos now and it doesn't exist till today.
Cost for Building software and maintaining it
Cost for acquiring users
Cost for keeping the data of users safe and accessible
Miscellaneous
Now lets come back to today where Google photos clearly exist and I will think about the costing in each of these sections.
Google photos s"See full answer
"Clarifying Qs:
What are we building the Google campus for on the moon? We are the Google X team and always want to move people forward and want to be the first private entity on the moon
Are we trying to build for astronauts or our employees or someone else? This will be for employees
Do we already have a location on the moon and we're expanding or will this be the first one ever? This is the first one ever.
For us to answer this question, we'll want to discuss Google's mission, us"
Angela - "Clarifying Qs:
What are we building the Google campus for on the moon? We are the Google X team and always want to move people forward and want to be the first private entity on the moon
Are we trying to build for astronauts or our employees or someone else? This will be for employees
Do we already have a location on the moon and we're expanding or will this be the first one ever? This is the first one ever.
For us to answer this question, we'll want to discuss Google's mission, us"See full answer
"You should be able to easily identify this as a Measure Success question. These kinds of questions are used to test your analytical skills, as well as your ability to track project progress post-launch.
Recall the strategy for tackling them methodically and thoroughly:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature / product
Behavior Mapping / UX Flow Mapping
Provide criteria to prioritize metrics
Prioritize metrics
Summarize
Let's begin!
"
Exponent - "You should be able to easily identify this as a Measure Success question. These kinds of questions are used to test your analytical skills, as well as your ability to track project progress post-launch.
Recall the strategy for tackling them methodically and thoroughly:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature / product
Behavior Mapping / UX Flow Mapping
Provide criteria to prioritize metrics
Prioritize metrics
Summarize
Let's begin!
"See full answer