Interview Questions

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

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

Greg W. - "PayPal makes money from: Processing fees from merchants - traditional checkout and buy now, pay later P2P transfers using credit cards Instant money transfers on P2P and to bank accounts Lending products (paypal credit) Cross border fees (Xoom) Crypto trading fees"See full answer

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

P K. - "A very interesting question. Please find below my approach: Understand VP's line of thought and goals trying to achieve Understand the assumptions/ Validate the hypothesis Impact on Brand, revenue, engineering cost, customers, and existing products SWOT Approve or Provide alternative Question to the VP: What is the objective? - higher engagement? easy to interact, peer-to-peer communication? Why the need for a separate platform? - to increase the no.of interactions? to"See full answer

Anonymous Spider - "1) Start by clarifying your constraints - which side of the marketplace am I focusing on and what are they solving for? (e.g., minimize cost for hoster, maximize comfort for renter indoor etc.). Assuming this is a "dealer's choice" type response then proceed to step 2 2) Where to focus: which customer segment, which job-to-be-done, and why I'd start by laying out segments on 2 dimensions: urban (think big cities, downtowns) and suburban (think suburbs, beach towns, mountains) areas focused on e"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "I had a very difficult situation where the company I was working for was having financial problems. Because of that, I had to fire one person from my team. I chose the team member we had hired most recently. She had great potential, but she still needed guidance to do her job. Before I talked to her, I reached out to some acquaintances from other companies, and one of them was hiring. So, when I gave her the bad news, I also told her about that opportunity. I gave her a recommendation letter and"See full answer

Xash C. - "This one is a great example of Build, Borrow, or Buy strategy framework (http://www.build-borrow-buy.com/build-borrow-or-buy-in-practice/) - explore and evaluate three different approaches: organic growth and building a product from scratch (e.g. Amazon building its own Amazon Restaurants service), partnering with an existing provider (e.g. enterprise-level partnership with Instacart or Lyft), or acquisition growth (e.g. Uber acquiring Postmates). Evaluate which approach makes sense for the com"See full answer

Rav S. - "Stakeholder management, Customer obsession, tech expertise to understand the tech stack and other details of the product."See full answer

Joohi M. - "Think about 3 types of users - 1) User who only uses Google photos and no other Google product. What is the value that Google gets out of such user? 2) User who uses all the google products including photos but does not spend a penny on google photos (think of storage fee, buying photo albums etc.). How do photos increase the value provided by that user in conjunction with other Google products? 3) Use who spends money on Google photos. The value provided by the first user is through their pho"See full answer

Aekagra S. - "I'll approach this by asking questions and creating scenarios based on answers. If the answer to any questions points to a specific issue, I'll double down on that to understand the issue. This is more of a RCA question. First I'll quickly check Were there any recent updates released before we observed the drops? Assuming Yes, I'll check the updates released and check the test cases and testing results If the issue is identified, I will engage with the product leadership, update them and conne"See full answer

Kanika - "https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-happens-when-you-hit-url-in-your-browser/"See full answer

Pm E. - "Methodology: Clarify some of the terms in our question List high level causes based on the category and gather context information, rule out the ones that have low probability or out of scope Drill down the causes and establish a few hypotyhesis Investigate and test the hypothesis I have and try to fix the problem Clarify questions: Define FB logins: through 3rd party Apps, Assuming our data is accurate, double check with 3rd party Apps that our understanding is correct/ or cr"See full answer

Pulkit G. - "Top 3 segments for the Apple Watch: At core, Apple watch is a wearable companion to the iPhone that does 3 big things - fitness & other health metrics tracking, act as smart watch for push notifications on the go, and acts as a high-tech fashion accessory. Customer segments - a) Fitness and adventure enthusiasts + for everybody (for basic sleep and HR tracking) - the new Apple Watch Ultra is targeted specifically at the outdoorsy (and aspiring adventurists) + also all the Nike integration b) F"See full answer

Prashanth A. - "We are asked to calculate Sum(over value) for time in (t - window_size, t) where key in (key criteria). To develop a function to set this up. Let w be the window size. I would have an observer of some kind note the key-value, and for the first w windows just add the value to a temporary variable in memory if the key meets the key criteria. Then it would delete the oldest value and add the new value if the new key meets the criteria. At each step after "w", we would take the sum / w and store"See full answer

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