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  • Product Manager
    Product Strategy
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    "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking a subscription-based product. This should be relatively easy since most of us are subscribed to at least one of these services. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? **How does this product address these pain points dif"

    Exponent - "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking a subscription-based product. This should be relatively easy since most of us are subscribed to at least one of these services. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? **How does this product address these pain points dif"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
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    Product Design
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    "A perceptron is the most basic building block of a neural network and represents a single-layer binary classifier."

    Lash - "A perceptron is the most basic building block of a neural network and represents a single-layer binary classifier."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Concept
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    Technical
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    Product Design
    System Design
  • "clarify question- do you want me to focus on Home, wearables, automotive or any specific IOT product? Interviewer - whichever you want to focus Rephrase: So I believe our goal is to make life easier for users using Internet of things (IOT) product. Does that sound good? Interviewer - Yes Ok so if I understand it, I can focus on any IOT product. For me Internet of things product is the one which is smart and connects to internet and makes people day to day tasks easy. With evolution of 5G Interne"

    Priyank S. - "clarify question- do you want me to focus on Home, wearables, automotive or any specific IOT product? Interviewer - whichever you want to focus Rephrase: So I believe our goal is to make life easier for users using Internet of things (IOT) product. Does that sound good? Interviewer - Yes Ok so if I understand it, I can focus on any IOT product. For me Internet of things product is the one which is smart and connects to internet and makes people day to day tasks easy. With evolution of 5G Interne"See full answer

    Product Design
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    "Started with the clarifying questions. Then discussed the following with the panel: Goal Users Use Cases Features Priority Metrics to measure the success"

    Apurv M. - "Started with the clarifying questions. Then discussed the following with the panel: Goal Users Use Cases Features Priority Metrics to measure the success"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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    Product Design
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    "Leetcode 347: Heap + Hashtable Follow up question: create heap with the length of K instead of N (more time complexity but less space )"

    Chen J. - "Leetcode 347: Heap + Hashtable Follow up question: create heap with the length of K instead of N (more time complexity but less space )"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
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    "Identify the constraints AR - definition College tour - definition (purpose - college application/college selection) Users College applicant/parents Tour guide Use Cases How does the college experience feel like in different seasons College experience in events, festivals, educational fairs Stimulate college sports events Mission statement - Sell the college to candidate in the best possible way Solutions At sports center, I can view the past games and experien"

    Parag - "Identify the constraints AR - definition College tour - definition (purpose - college application/college selection) Users College applicant/parents Tour guide Use Cases How does the college experience feel like in different seasons College experience in events, festivals, educational fairs Stimulate college sports events Mission statement - Sell the college to candidate in the best possible way Solutions At sports center, I can view the past games and experien"See full answer

    Product Design
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    Product Manager
    Product Design
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    "That I had not been a PM for a formal ML product. But good models need sound data and my five years of sql writing and ensuring that DWHs and marts had the data they needed for reporting would be very relevant"

    Tony C. - "That I had not been a PM for a formal ML product. But good models need sound data and my five years of sql writing and ensuring that DWHs and marts had the data they needed for reporting would be very relevant"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Technical
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    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • "Clarification : Criteria: User Journey Potential Use Case: Pain Points: Possible Solutions Tradeoff: Metrices:"

    Hiro L. - "Clarification : Criteria: User Journey Potential Use Case: Pain Points: Possible Solutions Tradeoff: Metrices:"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "for one time i was working as a receptionist in a hotel and one of the rooms that the customer needed was not available but rather we had diffrent room with the same quality i had to convince the customer to use the room we had and i would personally transfer him to the room he desires when its available"

    Jr H. - "for one time i was working as a receptionist in a hotel and one of the rooms that the customer needed was not available but rather we had diffrent room with the same quality i had to convince the customer to use the room we had and i would personally transfer him to the room he desires when its available"See full answer

    Product Marketing Manager
    Behavioral
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    Security Engineer
    Coding
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