Product Manager Technical Interview Questions

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions: What is meant by abuse?: Fake, paid reviews Are we looking at any particular country ? : Global Have we seen an increase in the number of fake reviews on Amazon?: Yes Can we quantify the % of fake reviews and how much it has increased in the recent past?: Can’t divulge company data Lets first start with the Vision of Amazon. It is to be the world’s most customer centric company. That is a very lofty and high standards’ Vision. So the problem we are trying to s"See full answer

Nathan B. - "There are many good answers to this that AI scientists around the world, I and my coworkers have tried over the years. For one, RAG is a great option to fact-check and enforce citation generation, update the data in the knowledge base of the generative AI, etc. "See full answer

anush - "@Jacob, your videos are really good and helpful. I want to know about the tool, you use for explaining the design in the videos."See full answer

Alex N. - "The adjusting context window size in LLM change trade off between reasoning capability, accuracy, computation cost. It influence how attention mechanist allocate resources across the input. Longer context window let it you input greater number of words and have more context to generate proper next token. However llms have lost in the middle issue. They remember the beginning of text and end of text but lost information located in the middle of long input. Another problem is Attention Dilution."See full answer

Rohit K. - "As the Product Manager for Google Play Store Ads, our goal with the ad ranking algorithm is to create a win-win ecosystem. We want to connect users with relevant and engaging apps they'll find valuable, while simultaneously delivering high-quality installs and engagement for our advertisers, ultimately driving sustainable revenue for Google. To achieve this, our ad ranking algorithm will be guided by the following core principles: Relevance First: We will prioritize ads tha"See full answer

Jasmin R. - "Let's imagine you want to open Google Maps, you type maps.google.com and hit Enter. Here is what happens: You type maps.google.com into the address bar of your browser. Browser completes the address, for example, maps.google.com → https://www.maps.google.com [Address decoding] → browser breaks down the URL into parts ‘https://’: protocol → how the browser should connect to the website Default is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which shows up as ‘ http:/"See full answer

Mohammedsiraj A. - " Here is the breakdown of the information in those images: \\1. The Amharic Letter (Financial Request)\** This is a formal letter from the \Dawa Zone Muslim Affairs Council\\ addressed to the \\Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE)\. \Date:\\ 30/6/2018 (Ethiopian Calendar) \\Subject:\\ Opening a savings account. \\Purpose:\\ The letter requests the opening of a savings account for \\Nuur Mosque\**, located in Bale Zone, Dawa City. \Authorized Signatories:\\"See full answer

Adarsh S. - "Thanks for the question! This is one of my favourite topics because it’s at the core of what we do as PMs DAILY: making the complex simple to drive alignment. I’ve got a structured way to approach this, and I’ll use it to explain payment aggregators - like Plaid - and how they enable Open Banking, with a twist about a technical hiccup I’ve seen in practice. Let’s dive in. I start by assessing the audience. Say I’m talking to a marketing manager at Transak - someone sharp but not techni"See full answer

Mohit G. - "5 reasons Gmail search is real time Gmail search needs to be 100% accurate Does not have significant caching / hot searches Less hardware used as user info cant be sprayed across machines Gmail storage is different, as needs decryption on every"See full answer

Suraj - "Design the SMS API for Twilio. Twilio Provide text messaging infrastructure for enterprises Mission unlock the imagination of builders Users Enterprises Buyer Admin Developers Individual - low-skill/low-no code Contract Developers - Outsourced contractors - medium skills operating on cloud environments High-skilled developers - building for large enterprises Problems Don’t unde"See full answer

Kirill K. - "DevOps it's bridge (methodology) between the Dev\Qa\etc(tech teams) and Ops to satisfy the business requirements, reduce the costs, reduce time to market, etc ..."See full answer

Ross B. - "I most want to communicate a few principals of conflict resolution that I believe were integral in this situation, which are mutual respect, a results orientation, an unwavering focus on the user. To that end, here’s how I’d like to structure this answer: First, I’ll tell you about the project we were working on, to provide some background for you. Second, I’ll describe the disagreement. Third, I’ll describe how we arrived at a solution, and finally, I’ll discuss how those 3 conflict resolution"See full answer

Mereke D. - " Before starting to answer let me gather the necessary details before proceeding: Objectives and Goals\: "What are the primary objectives of implementing the push notification system? Are we aiming to increase user engagement, drive sales, or provide timely updates?" Target Audience\: "Who is the target audience for these push notifications? Are there specific user segments we should focus on?" Platform and Device Considerations\: "Which platforms (iOS, Andr"See full answer

Henry H. - "Overall, a successful Netflix viewing session requires that the user was able to find a piece of content that they loved watching. Now, to break this down, how we might define this: -Time browsing (from app open to content played) -Satisfaction --> inferred satisfaction: did user complete watching the piece of content? --> explicit: did the user rank that they loved the content (2 thumbs up)? The way I would evaluate a new Top Picks ML feature would be to implement an A/B test as follows: Te"See full answer

Shashank P. - "Framework"See full answer

Ekta M. - "Think of an operating system (OS) as being similar to a person managing household tasks like you! Imagine you have several chores to do around the house, such as cooking, cleaning, and praying. Each of these tasks is like an individual app. You, in this case, are responsible for ensuring all these tasks are completed smoothly. When you cook, you decide what ingredients to buy, how much of each, and which utensils to use. For cleaning, you assess what surfaces need to be cleaned, whether you need"See full answer