"Firstly lets note down the ways of monetization -
Promotional Ads
Paid Filters and AR effects
Influencer promotional fee
Instagram Additional Tools for Creators - subscription basis (analytics and management)
> many influencers also run their own promotional campaigns to gain more and more followers on their handles - Instagram can use this opportunity (e-commerce sites ranking algorithm of different items/sellers)
> promotional ads can affect slightly on user engagement but accord"
Aniket B. - "Firstly lets note down the ways of monetization -
Promotional Ads
Paid Filters and AR effects
Influencer promotional fee
Instagram Additional Tools for Creators - subscription basis (analytics and management)
> many influencers also run their own promotional campaigns to gain more and more followers on their handles - Instagram can use this opportunity (e-commerce sites ranking algorithm of different items/sellers)
> promotional ads can affect slightly on user engagement but accord"See full answer
"Firstly, I would need to ask some clarifying questions:
What is the goal for this app? Is it for purely education purposes or it is for improving grades?
What age of kids are we talking about? Assuming most parts of the world kids go to kindergarten at age of 5. I am assuming we can have a few segments here. From ages 3-6 or ages 7-12.
What country is this for, or it is for global?
I would assume the following since nobody is replying in this case:
The goal is for improving grades"
Lewis G. - "Firstly, I would need to ask some clarifying questions:
What is the goal for this app? Is it for purely education purposes or it is for improving grades?
What age of kids are we talking about? Assuming most parts of the world kids go to kindergarten at age of 5. I am assuming we can have a few segments here. From ages 3-6 or ages 7-12.
What country is this for, or it is for global?
I would assume the following since nobody is replying in this case:
The goal is for improving grades"See full answer
"To roll out Instagram Reels, I will define my target customers as GenZ and newer generations. I will focus on design with 3 parameters - ease of use & stickiness, sharing, and comments+likes.
Reels feature should be kept at prime location in the app, with easy option for user to navigate between reels.
User should be shown reels based on his interest areas - reels skipped by user, reels seen repeatedly by user, reels shared by user, reels liked/commented by user.
Reels share feature sho"
Sushant G. - "To roll out Instagram Reels, I will define my target customers as GenZ and newer generations. I will focus on design with 3 parameters - ease of use & stickiness, sharing, and comments+likes.
Reels feature should be kept at prime location in the app, with easy option for user to navigate between reels.
User should be shown reels based on his interest areas - reels skipped by user, reels seen repeatedly by user, reels shared by user, reels liked/commented by user.
Reels share feature sho"See full answer
"Launch p2p payments on a chat application
Clarify - - - - - - - - - - -
any specific chat app in mind? [no]
Is there a 3rd party vendor tech we can incorporate [no, build grounds-up]
Markets [US]
Framing - - - - - - - - - - -
Messaging apps mission: be the go-to destination for 1:1, n:n info sharing and comms. Use network effects to gain market share
Biz/product goals:
Growth, gain more market share
Engagement: time spent, instances of interaction and sharing
Revenue: ads,"
Calyan - "Launch p2p payments on a chat application
Clarify - - - - - - - - - - -
any specific chat app in mind? [no]
Is there a 3rd party vendor tech we can incorporate [no, build grounds-up]
Markets [US]
Framing - - - - - - - - - - -
Messaging apps mission: be the go-to destination for 1:1, n:n info sharing and comms. Use network effects to gain market share
Biz/product goals:
Growth, gain more market share
Engagement: time spent, instances of interaction and sharing
Revenue: ads,"See full answer
"Started with user-groups to identify the differences world wide: speed of internet, how high end devices are
The interviewer just wanted to dive into the questions of latency & the technical fast.
I then said let's separate out server vs client. On server side, cannot have australian users hitting california servers for data. So must be some sort of global availability of caching. And ensure rapid read out of that cache so something like a redis solution would help.
Then switch gears to cli"
Sim S. - "Started with user-groups to identify the differences world wide: speed of internet, how high end devices are
The interviewer just wanted to dive into the questions of latency & the technical fast.
I then said let's separate out server vs client. On server side, cannot have australian users hitting california servers for data. So must be some sort of global availability of caching. And ensure rapid read out of that cache so something like a redis solution would help.
Then switch gears to cli"See full answer
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"Load Balancer to multiple API Servers, pub sub system to publish user events, Game Engine Service, Write through cache and NoSQL DB.
HTTP Long Polling to get user status updates"
gdecuri - "Load Balancer to multiple API Servers, pub sub system to publish user events, Game Engine Service, Write through cache and NoSQL DB.
HTTP Long Polling to get user status updates"See full answer
"Understand the product
success metrics
no. of orders
Rugs to be sold online.
Purchased to enhance the decor of the room or to keep you home warm.
Market Size
lets take US only
100m homes ~ 300m population
Atleast 1 per home and if we get 5% of the market
5000000 * Avg cost of the rug - $100
500m
Target audience
High class - luxury class
middle class - target audience - highest tam
below avg who cannot afford
Reaching and messaging
Channels
SEO - slow takes longer
Paid"
Mala R. - "Understand the product
success metrics
no. of orders
Rugs to be sold online.
Purchased to enhance the decor of the room or to keep you home warm.
Market Size
lets take US only
100m homes ~ 300m population
Atleast 1 per home and if we get 5% of the market
5000000 * Avg cost of the rug - $100
500m
Target audience
High class - luxury class
middle class - target audience - highest tam
below avg who cannot afford
Reaching and messaging
Channels
SEO - slow takes longer
Paid"See full answer
"I tried taking a shot at this in 20 mins and typed out a solution.
Why?
Mission: build communities and bring people closer together
Birthdays - help you connect with friends once an year, restart a conversation and bring people together. It also brings your broader friends and family closer to celebrate and builds communities .
User:
Birthday person
Posts their birthday as public info
FB reminds friends and family about the day
On the day they get posts to"
Spring C. - "I tried taking a shot at this in 20 mins and typed out a solution.
Why?
Mission: build communities and bring people closer together
Birthdays - help you connect with friends once an year, restart a conversation and bring people together. It also brings your broader friends and family closer to celebrate and builds communities .
User:
Birthday person
Posts their birthday as public info
FB reminds friends and family about the day
On the day they get posts to"See full answer
"This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. This could be confused with an expansion problem, but it's only asking for the risks. You should be thorough with the risks and identify as many as possible.
Let's go over one possible solution:
> Expanding to China could be a huge opportunity for Netflix, but it's definitely risky. I'd love to go over a few risks that we should consider. To me, the biggest risks are:Censorship
> Chinese compet"
Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. This could be confused with an expansion problem, but it's only asking for the risks. You should be thorough with the risks and identify as many as possible.
Let's go over one possible solution:
> Expanding to China could be a huge opportunity for Netflix, but it's definitely risky. I'd love to go over a few risks that we should consider. To me, the biggest risks are:Censorship
> Chinese compet"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions:
When you say Language Learning app, you're referring to a user wanting to learn a new language through a Meta property - not NLP tech correct? -- Yes
Is this a stand-alone app, or part of Facebook or another Meta app? -- You choose
Are there any restrictions like budget, or time for this learning app? -- Nope.
Give me a moment to think about how I want to structure this answer:
Mission // Goal of Language Learning App
Competition
Audience Segments
Pain Points
"
Brody C. - "Clarifying Questions:
When you say Language Learning app, you're referring to a user wanting to learn a new language through a Meta property - not NLP tech correct? -- Yes
Is this a stand-alone app, or part of Facebook or another Meta app? -- You choose
Are there any restrictions like budget, or time for this learning app? -- Nope.
Give me a moment to think about how I want to structure this answer:
Mission // Goal of Language Learning App
Competition
Audience Segments
Pain Points
"See full answer
"Let's apply Porter's Five Forces model to Amazon's business. All of these are my personal opinions.
Industry Rivalry - There's a continuous rivalry in the ecommerce space with each rival trying to focus on specific aspect's of Amazon's business. Walmart (price, convenience), Google Shopping (relevancy, search), Shopify (brand trust, direct buying), eBay (antiques, used, shipping), Facebook Marketplace (buy from 3P sellers).
Threat of new entrants - Amazon continuously faces threa"
Preyas J. - "Let's apply Porter's Five Forces model to Amazon's business. All of these are my personal opinions.
Industry Rivalry - There's a continuous rivalry in the ecommerce space with each rival trying to focus on specific aspect's of Amazon's business. Walmart (price, convenience), Google Shopping (relevancy, search), Shopify (brand trust, direct buying), eBay (antiques, used, shipping), Facebook Marketplace (buy from 3P sellers).
Threat of new entrants - Amazon continuously faces threa"See full answer
"It's always good to start with identifying what type of problem you're tackling. The problem we need to tackle is essentially a variation on a Favorite Product Question.
We know there's a formula for this type of question, so now our job is to tactically execute on the formula. Let's begin with the Favorite Product Question formula:
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"
Exponent - "It's always good to start with identifying what type of problem you're tackling. The problem we need to tackle is essentially a variation on a Favorite Product Question.
We know there's a formula for this type of question, so now our job is to tactically execute on the formula. Let's begin with the Favorite Product Question formula:
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"See full answer
"SELECT d.departmentname,SUM(o.orderamount) AS total_revenue FROM orders o
JOIN departments d
ON
d.departmentid =o.departmentid
WHERE o.orderdate >= CURRENTDATE - INTERVAL '12 months'
GROUP BY d.department_name
ORDER BY total_revenue DESC;
`"
Derrick M. - "SELECT d.departmentname,SUM(o.orderamount) AS total_revenue FROM orders o
JOIN departments d
ON
d.departmentid =o.departmentid
WHERE o.orderdate >= CURRENTDATE - INTERVAL '12 months'
GROUP BY d.department_name
ORDER BY total_revenue DESC;
`"See full answer
"Break down into:
OPEX
#Employees x $avg. cost per employee
$Overhead (mktg, legal, compliance)
Content cost (creator payments) 80% of advert. revenue
Elec, cooling, maintenance
CAPEX
#Data centers
Avg servers per data center
Avg. cost $ per server"
James M. - "Break down into:
OPEX
#Employees x $avg. cost per employee
$Overhead (mktg, legal, compliance)
Content cost (creator payments) 80% of advert. revenue
Elec, cooling, maintenance
CAPEX
#Data centers
Avg servers per data center
Avg. cost $ per server"See full answer
"Tell me about a time you were with someone on your team who was struggling to meet objectives.
How did you address the situation?
What kind of feedback did you give the individual?
What was the outcome?"
Jawahir Y. - "Tell me about a time you were with someone on your team who was struggling to meet objectives.
How did you address the situation?
What kind of feedback did you give the individual?
What was the outcome?"See full answer