"Clarification questions:
What is the mission of the company? To connect people together to unleash their creativity.
Is there any geographical areas that I should concentrate on? It is worldwide.
Are there any constraints? No, there is none.
Success of the usage of the app? The PM to pick.
Approach:
Establish the nature of the application.
Establish the type of users that would be on the platform.
Lay out what the user journey is.
Define the metrics that are relevant.
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Ferri T. - "Clarification questions:
What is the mission of the company? To connect people together to unleash their creativity.
Is there any geographical areas that I should concentrate on? It is worldwide.
Are there any constraints? No, there is none.
Success of the usage of the app? The PM to pick.
Approach:
Establish the nature of the application.
Establish the type of users that would be on the platform.
Lay out what the user journey is.
Define the metrics that are relevant.
-"See full answer
"Depends on the memory available. Also if there's any structure to the data already.
If this is just pure numbers random and all over the place and we don't need to worry about space. Then radix sort would be the best.
But this all depends on what constraints the interviewer gives you."
Ted K. - "Depends on the memory available. Also if there's any structure to the data already.
If this is just pure numbers random and all over the place and we don't need to worry about space. Then radix sort would be the best.
But this all depends on what constraints the interviewer gives you."See full answer
"Clarifying and Assumptions
When we say New York City, does this mean just Downtown New York or also the suburbs? Assumption: It means Downtown New York only.
Is the bike-sharing service like Uber, where people share their own bikes, or is it a service run by a company with bike stands on street corners? Assumption: It’s run by a private company with bike stands on street corners.
Will the bike-sharing service start as free, or will we charge people from the beginning?"
Darpan D. - "Clarifying and Assumptions
When we say New York City, does this mean just Downtown New York or also the suburbs? Assumption: It means Downtown New York only.
Is the bike-sharing service like Uber, where people share their own bikes, or is it a service run by a company with bike stands on street corners? Assumption: It’s run by a private company with bike stands on street corners.
Will the bike-sharing service start as free, or will we charge people from the beginning?"See full answer
"Establish more servers on regional bases or locally and move network traffic to these servers instead of keeping on one server."
Parth P. - "Establish more servers on regional bases or locally and move network traffic to these servers instead of keeping on one server."See full answer
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"Ask Follow up Questions
Is this for specific type of user or open?
Do we have any past research that has been done?
Do we have an idea of company and user goals?
Do we have metrics of success?
Are there any existing constraints?
Why  |  5 min
Why is this product or feature important?
How does this product benefit customers?
What business opportunities does it create?
What is our hypothesis?
What are our company goals?
Who  |  3 min
Who are the different types"
Ben G. - "Ask Follow up Questions
Is this for specific type of user or open?
Do we have any past research that has been done?
Do we have an idea of company and user goals?
Do we have metrics of success?
Are there any existing constraints?
Why  |  5 min
Why is this product or feature important?
How does this product benefit customers?
What business opportunities does it create?
What is our hypothesis?
What are our company goals?
Who  |  3 min
Who are the different types"See full answer
"Would be great to order the answer by Pirate Metrics and prioritize recommendations by the leakiest part of the funnel:
Awareness - Advertising the existence of the restaurant in the local community.
Acquisition - Getting tables booked. Can you book online? Do we have a phone number?
Activation - Food orders. What's the average size of an order? Can we change the menu a bit? Payment options.
Retention - Maybe we can create a loyalty club for patrons?
Referral - Maybe we can give coupon"
Anonymous Sheep - "Would be great to order the answer by Pirate Metrics and prioritize recommendations by the leakiest part of the funnel:
Awareness - Advertising the existence of the restaurant in the local community.
Acquisition - Getting tables booked. Can you book online? Do we have a phone number?
Activation - Food orders. What's the average size of an order? Can we change the menu a bit? Payment options.
Retention - Maybe we can create a loyalty club for patrons?
Referral - Maybe we can give coupon"See full answer
"Situation - A time where I encouraged my work team to be more creative and innovative was while I was directing design at Blade Urban Air Mobility. Long story short, they had no creative programs in place for cross collaboration and innovation.
Action - I introduced Figma into the product workflow, and set up time with the technical team to demo and go over the basics of the program. This allowed everyone to collaborate on the designs, leave comments and streamline the process of creative dev"
Ben G. - "Situation - A time where I encouraged my work team to be more creative and innovative was while I was directing design at Blade Urban Air Mobility. Long story short, they had no creative programs in place for cross collaboration and innovation.
Action - I introduced Figma into the product workflow, and set up time with the technical team to demo and go over the basics of the program. This allowed everyone to collaborate on the designs, leave comments and streamline the process of creative dev"See full answer
"First of all, I would try to create and foster a good atmosphere. I will talk honestly with the team and I will expose my doubts openly in order to be transparent. I will talk calmly about my fears and I will ask for opinions. This way I will open the door of transparent communication."
David n. C. - "First of all, I would try to create and foster a good atmosphere. I will talk honestly with the team and I will expose my doubts openly in order to be transparent. I will talk calmly about my fears and I will ask for opinions. This way I will open the door of transparent communication."See full answer
"Clarifying question: By high-tech, we mean internet enabled refrigerator which uses technology and assists us in our decision making or takes decisions for us
Users:
Working women
Homemakers
Bachelors and Spinsters living alone
Other family members (Elderly, Kids etc)
Prioritized users: Working women, Bachelors and Spinsters living alone
Problems:
Food left in the refrigerator gets rotten as it goes out of notice
I am at the supermarket and I dont know the inven"
Sahil A. - "Clarifying question: By high-tech, we mean internet enabled refrigerator which uses technology and assists us in our decision making or takes decisions for us
Users:
Working women
Homemakers
Bachelors and Spinsters living alone
Other family members (Elderly, Kids etc)
Prioritized users: Working women, Bachelors and Spinsters living alone
Problems:
Food left in the refrigerator gets rotten as it goes out of notice
I am at the supermarket and I dont know the inven"See full answer
"Questions:
Are these bikes for personal or commercial use? Or both?
For commuting, or should we also include recreational bikes (e.g. mountain bikes?)
Should we include stationary exercise bikes, or only those used outside?
E-bikes and motorcycles?
Are we counting children, or just adults?
Should we factor in whether the individual has purchasing power to purchase a new bike? What about renting a bike?
Assumptions:
Assuming we are sizing the market for personal commuter bicycles f"
Chelsea F. - "Questions:
Are these bikes for personal or commercial use? Or both?
For commuting, or should we also include recreational bikes (e.g. mountain bikes?)
Should we include stationary exercise bikes, or only those used outside?
E-bikes and motorcycles?
Are we counting children, or just adults?
Should we factor in whether the individual has purchasing power to purchase a new bike? What about renting a bike?
Assumptions:
Assuming we are sizing the market for personal commuter bicycles f"See full answer
"Started with clarifications, listed out assumptions, created stories with user pain points in existing business, how we can eliminate in our design and strategy, metrics for the success of business initial 90 days, 6 months and a year. What i missed to present is the north star metrics
Overall i thought i did well, still didnt get through
Hope it will help me for other interviews in Amazon/Meta/Cisco"
Ragupathy V. - "Started with clarifications, listed out assumptions, created stories with user pain points in existing business, how we can eliminate in our design and strategy, metrics for the success of business initial 90 days, 6 months and a year. What i missed to present is the north star metrics
Overall i thought i did well, still didnt get through
Hope it will help me for other interviews in Amazon/Meta/Cisco"See full answer
"First I would like to ask you some clarifying questions.
Timeframe: do we consider a single given day? YES
What is the definition of jogger? Running, not walking
Is there a minimum distance? NO
Do you count only the distance within the perimeter of central park or also the miles getting in and out of CP to my start location? ONLY CP
Great, I would like to structure the problem this way.
\# of aggregated miles run by jogger in a day in CP = # of joggers per day * av"
Fabio E. - "First I would like to ask you some clarifying questions.
Timeframe: do we consider a single given day? YES
What is the definition of jogger? Running, not walking
Is there a minimum distance? NO
Do you count only the distance within the perimeter of central park or also the miles getting in and out of CP to my start location? ONLY CP
Great, I would like to structure the problem this way.
\# of aggregated miles run by jogger in a day in CP = # of joggers per day * av"See full answer