"Clarify
"What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice.
"Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product.
Rephrase Question
With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"
Tim W. - "Clarify
"What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice.
"Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product.
Rephrase Question
With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"See full answer
"Let me tell you about a time where a website I managed suddenly showed slow performance and the mistake on our side was it was unnoticed until a user reported the issue to management. As a PM for that project, I took full responsibility of the situation and worked with the engineering team to quickly resolve it. This mistake taught me the importance of focusing and monitoring non functional requirements as well in addition to new feature development /adoption where I was mostly spending my time"
Sreenisha S. - "Let me tell you about a time where a website I managed suddenly showed slow performance and the mistake on our side was it was unnoticed until a user reported the issue to management. As a PM for that project, I took full responsibility of the situation and worked with the engineering team to quickly resolve it. This mistake taught me the importance of focusing and monitoring non functional requirements as well in addition to new feature development /adoption where I was mostly spending my time"See full answer
"For any project based questions, it is important to structure your response clearly, showcasing your thought process, technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and how your work added value. Besides the STAR method, you can also use this kind of framework:
1. Start by selecting a relevant project (related to the role)
Give the project background and what specific problem it solved.
2. Align the project's objective and your role
Be specific about your role: were you the le"
Malay K. - "For any project based questions, it is important to structure your response clearly, showcasing your thought process, technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and how your work added value. Besides the STAR method, you can also use this kind of framework:
1. Start by selecting a relevant project (related to the role)
Give the project background and what specific problem it solved.
2. Align the project's objective and your role
Be specific about your role: were you the le"See full answer
"Situation:
While working at CVS Health, our inventory management system for OTCHS products was facing challenges. We had increasing stock outs, and our existing data was insufficient to fully understand and address the issue since it has been only a year this product line was initiated.
Action:
Although we do have a forecasting model to predict demand and other algorithms to trigger out of stock flags to warehouses to fill them, lack of data points on seasonality, supplier delays, compliance"
Vihari K. - "Situation:
While working at CVS Health, our inventory management system for OTCHS products was facing challenges. We had increasing stock outs, and our existing data was insufficient to fully understand and address the issue since it has been only a year this product line was initiated.
Action:
Although we do have a forecasting model to predict demand and other algorithms to trigger out of stock flags to warehouses to fill them, lack of data points on seasonality, supplier delays, compliance"See full answer
"Would consider the following factors:
Customer demographic and preferences
Location of the warehouse and what's the local product trends
Seasonality and time of the year for trendy products
Balance of volume and margin products
Supply chain consideration
Competition analysis
Inventory turn over rate
eCommerce aspects of the inventory
Plus the following types:
Essential and groceries
Electronic and entertainment
Apparel and footwear
Home and lifestyle
Seasonal and promo"
onering2ruleall - "Would consider the following factors:
Customer demographic and preferences
Location of the warehouse and what's the local product trends
Seasonality and time of the year for trendy products
Balance of volume and margin products
Supply chain consideration
Competition analysis
Inventory turn over rate
eCommerce aspects of the inventory
Plus the following types:
Essential and groceries
Electronic and entertainment
Apparel and footwear
Home and lifestyle
Seasonal and promo"See full answer
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Product Strategy
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"This is a classic strategic dilemma, but the answer for Walmart, given its core business model and strengths, is quite clear: Invest in boosting dish soap production.
Here's why:
Proven Success: Dish soap is Walmart's top product with strong, established sales. Scaling leverages existing, efficient supply chains and customer demand.
Core Competency: Walmart excels at high-volume, low-margin household goods. This aligns perfectly with their business model and customer base.
**L"
Vishnu G. - "This is a classic strategic dilemma, but the answer for Walmart, given its core business model and strengths, is quite clear: Invest in boosting dish soap production.
Here's why:
Proven Success: Dish soap is Walmart's top product with strong, established sales. Scaling leverages existing, efficient supply chains and customer demand.
Core Competency: Walmart excels at high-volume, low-margin household goods. This aligns perfectly with their business model and customer base.
**L"See full answer
"I set the context by stating that this specific program is not complex for technical reasons, but for the nature of how it was set up.
Spoke about a scenario where one of the programs was at risk due security and legal compliance's. And how did I carry that program forward."
Anonymous Mockingbird - "I set the context by stating that this specific program is not complex for technical reasons, but for the nature of how it was set up.
Spoke about a scenario where one of the programs was at risk due security and legal compliance's. And how did I carry that program forward."See full answer
"As a software engineer, there are a number of ways I could potentially contribute to improving Walmart.com. Here are a few ideas:
Performance Optimization: Walmart.com is a complex web application with many moving parts. One potential area for improvement could be to optimize the performance of the site to make it load faster and feel more responsive. This could involve things like optimizing images, improving server response times, or reducing the number of HTTP requests required to load the"
N N. - "As a software engineer, there are a number of ways I could potentially contribute to improving Walmart.com. Here are a few ideas:
Performance Optimization: Walmart.com is a complex web application with many moving parts. One potential area for improvement could be to optimize the performance of the site to make it load faster and feel more responsive. This could involve things like optimizing images, improving server response times, or reducing the number of HTTP requests required to load the"See full answer
"
A couple of years ago, we were working on a project to integrate a new third-party data feed into our existing data processing pipeline. This data feed was critical for enhancing our trading algorithms with more comprehensive market data. Given the tight timeline and high stakes, I decided to push for a rapid implementation.
In my eagerness to meet the deadline, I underestimated the complexity of integrating this new data feed. I did not allocate sufficient time for thorough testing and valida"
Scott S. - "
A couple of years ago, we were working on a project to integrate a new third-party data feed into our existing data processing pipeline. This data feed was critical for enhancing our trading algorithms with more comprehensive market data. Given the tight timeline and high stakes, I decided to push for a rapid implementation.
In my eagerness to meet the deadline, I underestimated the complexity of integrating this new data feed. I did not allocate sufficient time for thorough testing and valida"See full answer
"My style of inspiring / discovery sessions / brainstorming / execution guidance / upskiling the team has always been Outcome driven.
Outcomes always took the central focus of our efforts, and hence easier prioritisation and a clarity on why a decision failed or succeeded. I take personal responsibility to help the teams to define outcomes if it is a complicated charter and for most help them fine tune the outcomes to keep them simple, progressive and aspirational."
RestlessMonk - "My style of inspiring / discovery sessions / brainstorming / execution guidance / upskiling the team has always been Outcome driven.
Outcomes always took the central focus of our efforts, and hence easier prioritisation and a clarity on why a decision failed or succeeded. I take personal responsibility to help the teams to define outcomes if it is a complicated charter and for most help them fine tune the outcomes to keep them simple, progressive and aspirational."See full answer
"Started at 10.55
Clarifying questions:
This is what I understand from a telemedicine platform -> A platform where users can get advice on medication over the telephone, is this correct?
Does the retail company also sell medicines?
Is the user aware that the telemedicine platform and the retail company are connected, and can either of the platforms use his data?
Is the user engaging with the platform directly, or is there an agent to who he is speaking to via call/text?
Does the"
Anubhav A. - "Started at 10.55
Clarifying questions:
This is what I understand from a telemedicine platform -> A platform where users can get advice on medication over the telephone, is this correct?
Does the retail company also sell medicines?
Is the user aware that the telemedicine platform and the retail company are connected, and can either of the platforms use his data?
Is the user engaging with the platform directly, or is there an agent to who he is speaking to via call/text?
Does the"See full answer
"Total volume of the swimming pool, let's say it's a standard 50m x 25 m x 2m =2500 m3 = 2.5 million litter
standard water horse water flow rate is 17 liter per min.
So, 2.5 m / 17 =147,059 min"
onering2ruleall - "Total volume of the swimming pool, let's say it's a standard 50m x 25 m x 2m =2500 m3 = 2.5 million litter
standard water horse water flow rate is 17 liter per min.
So, 2.5 m / 17 =147,059 min"See full answer
"How do you define Retention? Let’s assume a user comes back tomorrow and scroll for a 10s or so
Do we mean to improve the daily retention or weekly/monthly retention? Take a call
I think we should look at the weekly retention as checking LinkedIn daily could be a cumbersome task for some and daily retention data may have frequent fluctuations due to several reasons such as professionals are too busy to check LinkedIn on a daily basis
Has retention dropped recently, or do we just need to"
Shashi R. - "How do you define Retention? Let’s assume a user comes back tomorrow and scroll for a 10s or so
Do we mean to improve the daily retention or weekly/monthly retention? Take a call
I think we should look at the weekly retention as checking LinkedIn daily could be a cumbersome task for some and daily retention data may have frequent fluctuations due to several reasons such as professionals are too busy to check LinkedIn on a daily basis
Has retention dropped recently, or do we just need to"See full answer
"I prefer to build a team of complementary skills than being skewed on one aspect. And generally avoid an all rockstar team.
Technically, this means we will have atleast one rockstar for one skill and it is acceptable if that rockstar is just an avg performer on other skills
Which person gets indexed more on which skill is a time to time exercise depending on needs of the org, product charter and career aspirations of the person."
RestlessMonk - "I prefer to build a team of complementary skills than being skewed on one aspect. And generally avoid an all rockstar team.
Technically, this means we will have atleast one rockstar for one skill and it is acceptable if that rockstar is just an avg performer on other skills
Which person gets indexed more on which skill is a time to time exercise depending on needs of the org, product charter and career aspirations of the person."See full answer
"Below data was given in a an excel.
Data of 6 weeks, at a weekly level of COVID samples collected and tested
Age Group, Population size, # tested, # positive, gender
My approach:
Tried to understand the trend of positivity rate of each group across weeks and cumulative level
There is no variation across weeks, and each cohort exhibited similar pattern in all the weeks. So looked at cumulative data of 6 weeks.
No clear goal/objective set by the interviewer for vaccine distributio"
RestlessMonk - "Below data was given in a an excel.
Data of 6 weeks, at a weekly level of COVID samples collected and tested
Age Group, Population size, # tested, # positive, gender
My approach:
Tried to understand the trend of positivity rate of each group across weeks and cumulative level
There is no variation across weeks, and each cohort exhibited similar pattern in all the weeks. So looked at cumulative data of 6 weeks.
No clear goal/objective set by the interviewer for vaccine distributio"See full answer
"Conduct a competitive analysis: Research the competitive landscape to identify gaps and opportunities that your product can capitalize on.
Develop a business case: Document the value of your product, including projected growth, expected return on investment, and potential risk factors.
Establish partnerships: Develop relationships with key stakeholders and partners who can help provide resources and funding for your product.
Secure executive support: Present yo"
Shivam S. - "Conduct a competitive analysis: Research the competitive landscape to identify gaps and opportunities that your product can capitalize on.
Develop a business case: Document the value of your product, including projected growth, expected return on investment, and potential risk factors.
Establish partnerships: Develop relationships with key stakeholders and partners who can help provide resources and funding for your product.
Secure executive support: Present yo"See full answer