Interview Questions

James W. - "I'd do an audit of what we understand, the gaps and the risks. What information do we have and how confident do we feel? What assumptions do we have? What do we not know? What is the risk of making certain assumptions? With this information, and a pulse of your team you can get an understanding of the risk level for moving forward. If the risk is high, you need to go back to leadership with the evidence and ask for more time. **What's the risk if we don't launch on"See full answer

Anonymous Caribou - "Sales and Delivery app: Ask Clarifying questions: What all parts of the user journey does this app play a role in? All delivery notifications go through this app. Tesla while completing sales does ask its customer to download this app. Sales can be completely done through the app. Sales person at Tesla could be reached through app. App can be used to buy other peripherals for Tesla. Success Metrics: Revenue: \# of car sales completed through the delivery app. \# of peripheral"See full answer

Ban N. - "Follow news and resources via conferences or top companies' blogs, such as NeurIPS 2023 or Google Research Blog to get updates about the machine learning landscape. Research the papers on the new technology or approach that was mentioned or introduced via the subscribed sources, such as listed above. Following media channels, podcasts, or influencers on social media who were recently active in the industry to catch up with the trending and valuable insights, research, thoughts... Scan Github"See full answer

Jack F. - "This is an estimation question - the goal is to show your thought process to the interviewer how you think through the question Let's make some assumptions - we are only focused on the TAM for Capital One's new potential card For the purpose of scoping this more narrowly let's assume we are solely focused on the U.S. Let's continue to scope in... 1). We know the United States population is somewhere in the ballpark of ~330MM (let's use round figures) 2). You should have some due dili"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a classic Favorite Product question with a constrained product type. For this, we want to make sure it's a SaaS product. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before diving in: 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 past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? How would you improve it/make it better? **Summarize"See full answer

Anonymous Dove - "Do first: These are the ideas that have high urgency and high impact. They are your top priorities that you should work on as soon as possible. For example, an idea in this quadrant could be to implement a responsive design that adapts to different screen sizes and devices. Schedule: These are the ideas that have low urgency and high impact. They are important but not urgent, so you can plan to work on them later. For example, an idea in this quadrant could be to create an email styl"See full answer

Vishal S. - "Q. Why is a promotional tool required? Swiggy vision is to provide unparalleled convenience to customers. There are a number of newer restaurants launching everyday all over India and swiggy is a place not just for order but also for customer acquisition and feedback. And in India one of the most tried and tested ways to acquire is by giving discounts on all orders or special items if one wants to try newer items with customers or even cross sell. I myself have used Swiggy trynew code multiple t"See full answer

Anonymous Koala - "Let us define productivity. If there is a change in productivity what will be some of the impacts that can be used to measure if this is true? Finance: Are we meeting the quarterly revenue targets and able to increase our guidance as planned Tech: Are we innovating and introducing new products and services to the market, how does it compare to the historical performance People: Are people taking more days off and how is their average feedback on sentiments Partners/Customers: Who wor"See full answer

Jack99 - "Node* getLeftMostChild(Node* node){ while(node->left){ node = node->left; } return node; } Node* findInOrderSuccessor( Node *inputNode ) { int val = inputNode->key; if(inputNode->right){ return getLeftMostChild(inputNode->right); }else{ inputNode = inputNode->parent; while(inputNode && inputNode->key parent; } return inputNode; } } "See full answer

Saurabh K. - "Missing Item - User ordered multiple items, few items are missing Wrong Item - Entire order is wrong / there are items in the order that were never ordered How is this measured ? CSAT Missing Items Wrong Items Step 1 : Collect data on orders that reported missing / wrong items. Dive deep to understand if the problem is isolated to a specific metro/zip code/restaurant type (say fast food vs fine dine), time of day (lunch vs dinner), tenure of the courier on th"See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "See full answer

Yashaswini K. - "The interviewer was curious to understand my transition from a core development profile to an NGO and then to an MBA program. He was trying to understand my thoughts behind the journey and what convinced me about going for a PM role. What helped me answer this was - Having spent some time by myself mapping out the good and not-so-great experiences at each part of my journey What exactly motivated me to take the next step each time How it all connected What moments in the journey hi"See full answer

S H. - "Clarifications Only travellers to be considered? Or should we consider work staff, people who come to receive and see off people when they are traveling? → In essence who is considered to the count? → Assumption, only travellers. If not then you have to consider, staff (ATC, Security, Airlines ground staff, Customs, shop employees, airport staff etc.) making the estimate very difficult, But If I had to guess I would say 5% of total travellers across all the staffing categories. Estimate"See full answer

Exponent - "You should be able to identify this as a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. Be concise and to the point. > The underlying theme I can see in these services is that they all encourage people to start online businesses. This helps Stripe since their main product is the ability to handle online transactions. Stripe takes a percentage fee from each transaction, so it's in their best interest to encourage the growth of internet-enabled busines"See full answer

Sireesha R. - "Use Dutch National Flag Algorithm to solve the problem"See full answer

Nicholas S. - "Definitely nice to think of this without memorization, but there is a well known algorithm for this problem, which is the Levenshtein Distance. Lev(a,b) = len(a) if len(b) == 0 = len(b) if len(a) == 0 = lev(a[1:], b[1:] if a[0] == b[0] = 1 + min (lev(a, b[1:]), lev(a[1:], b), lev(a[1:], b[1:])) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance I'm sure some optimizations could be made with heuristic."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

Pattie K. - "Here are some ways I would evaluate the optimum number of notifications as a product manager: Conduct user research and surveys to understand preferences on notification frequency. Ask users directly how many is too many for different types of notifications. Analyze usage data to see when notifications start getting ignored or dismissed. Look for drop offs in engagement after a certain number of notifications. A/B test different notification frequencies and content types. Measure the open"See full answer