Interview Questions

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

Ekta M. - " Why do we want to increase the price? How much do we need to increase? Is it tied to some kind of revenue target? What is the region in which price needs to be increased? - Say India Who are the major players in that region who offer similar services and how are they priced? Will the users switch to those competitors? What is our unique proposition for retention? Do we have any leverage against them which will stop the users from churning? Any change in pricing or anything major like terms an"See full answer

Tj C. - "SELECT (zip, rides, deliveries) FROM dataset GROUP BY zip;"See full answer

Ishita S. - "We know that Meta’s mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that enables it. In line with this, we aim to build a product that enables knowledge and skill sharing within communities. User Segments A skill-sharing platform typically serves two broad segments. Creators are people who create content, share resources, and moderate communities. They include: Peer educators such as college seniors and teaching assistants Hobby experts Semi-professional c"See full answer

Ranj A. - "In the Transformer architecture, the decoder differs from the encoder primarily in its additional mechanisms designed to handle autoregressive sequence generation. Here's a breakdown of the key differences: Self-Attention Mechanism: Encoder: The encoder has a standard self-attention mechanism that allows each token to attend to all other tokens in the input sequence. Decoder: The decoder has two types of self-attention. The first is the same as in the encoder, but the second is mas"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Clarifying question: Do we want to judge need of an existing product or an idea that can be converted into a product Let me solve for both the cases. Q: Determine if there is a need for a platform that is already live and has some users. While thinking about need, I am finding it resonating with "Does this product have a pmf". Few ways to do that: Take a look at the retention number (D1, D3, D7 and D15). Basis on the product the time range can be different but if the retention number is"See full answer

John F. - "First, I would like to establish some assumptions about the problem to determine if this is possible. For this scenario, I will assume that “accepted” does not mean a student is enrolled at the university (most students apply to multiple universities and can only attend one university). For simplicity, I will also assume that each student is applies to a single department and that every student is associated with a single department. Based on this information, I see a scenario that this would"See full answer

Hl M. - "Clarifying Slack is a mature product in markets with millions of users B2B platform Expand customer base to school boards SWOT Technology is mature and well reputed Good privacy practices Threats Google school Microsoft learning education Zoom Journeys User Users for slack - for - school School boards 12 school boards Primary Secondary High Universities - Remote learning / Distant educations - Incumbents MooCs - Existing platform End Users: Students Teachers Administrators Ed"See full answer

Shivam B. - "In my role as a Product Manager at a B2B SaaS startup, I encountered a situation where we were facing a critical issue with one of our key features. Our engineering team proposed a quick fix that would address the immediate problem, but it was clear that this solution wouldn't provide a sustainable long-term solution. Despite the pressure to implement the short-term fix and resolve the issue swiftly, I decided to advocate for a more comprehensive, long-term strategy that would address the root c"See full answer

Soodong P. - "Product and Mission To allow users to create events and host on FB pages. It can be one time or recurring. It can include FB users through feeds or referrals or can be shared out with a link. Product objective is to build strong online and offline bonding through connecting people with common interests and ensure continued engagements. Aligns with the core Meta mission. User Journey and Value + Metrics Organizers: Finds the value when the many participants share interest or"See full answer

Michael F. - "Prompt: We work for an online shopping website. Our team wants to consider offering discounts (e.g. 10% off your next purchase) to customers to incentivize them to make purchases. How would you design a system that decides how to offer these incentives? Answer Goals: Increase customer engagement while controlling costs. Specifically, we want the increase in revenue per customer per week of customers that receive the discount to be greater than the cost of the discount. Metrics: Revenue per cu"See full answer

Tulio G. - "Imagine you're a PM at YouTube and you've made the decision to ban videos with explicit language from monetization; take me through your decision process. Clarifying questions: Was the decision made, to ban videos in general from the platform, or only for monetization? Answer: Ban for Monetization only, the videos would still be available on the platform. Considering highly offensive, vulgar, sexual or graphical language are already considered violations of Youtube'"See full answer

Ahmed A. - "Good Question, but I would've marked this as medium not hard difficulty, since it's just a straightforward traversal."See full answer