Analytical Interview Questions

Pathworks P. - "I would begin by asking the following clarifying questions: Are there any special use cases such as VIP Penthouse access, restricted floors etc? Do we need to consider safety requirements or other technical constraints such as maximum load/capacity? If the lobby for the entire hotel located on the ground floor? Can we assume that the majority of the guest amenities are located near the lobby and lower floors? Can we assume that the passenger controls on the floors are purely directional"See full answer

P K. - "Clarifying questions, Before I begin, I want to make sure I understand what the product is. FB fundraiser is a platform for entities (charitable organizations) and individuals to create fundraising campaigns, invite certain users to it, share it with others and ask them to invite potential contributors to it. It is also part of the core facebook product. The approach I want to take about defining goals is as following: Define the mission of FB as a company, goal of fundraiser p"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

Sri A. - "Mission: to help users buy and sell products from groups. If we think about the value here, users want to join groups that sell/buy products of interest (young moms or vinyl), or location of interest, or trust, or some other factor - either from other users or SMBs. User Actions: create groups, join groups, active in groups - make posts to sell or show interest in buying (like, commenting, sharing or ideally transacting) deeper engagement - sharing , saving , searching more based on wh"See full answer

Alfredo M. - "The question refers to a very specific event: "step into the back for a few minutes, return and see a lot of people waiting"... I might try to clarify goals and scenario: Before I stepped back, there were no ppl waiting? If so, we might be talking about a very specific, even uncommon scenario, in which optimizations for the complete serving system in the long term might not be needed. Maybe they even arrived all together and this is expected behavior. Are people waiting for something specif"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions: By “down”, do we mean creation of messages (activation), engagement, or both? My assumed answer: engagement How are “messages” defined? Is it comments to posts, DMs, or posts themselves? My assumed answer: DMs How is engagement of DMs defined? Is it by number of DMs viewed, created, replied to? My assumed answer: all of that Quick Product Strategy Discussion: Why messaging is important to LinkedIn LinkedIn’s mission is"See full answer

Tracy M. - "Clarify LLM purpose; research, extraction, reasoning, planning, assessing? Assuming document extraction skill only, large db, multiple doc types, unstructured data; assuming Haiku-2.5 (less complex tasks) and LLM parsing tool exists pre-extraction call. Assuming golden dataset for ref is accessible, experiments and observability set in place. Likewise prompts. Eval set:document extraction coverage: % of accurately extracted (doc type, structured outputs) document field/value/format coverage"See full answer

Coach - "Great question, give me a moment to collect my thoughts…. When faced with a situation where a product defect is impacting my customers as a product manager my goal would be to roll out a quick & effective enough solution that minimizes the negative impact on users. I would seek available incident information to understand, its blast radius i.e. the impacted users, platforms, duration, if available understand the nature of failure i.e. recoverable vs not, it's root cause and short/long t"See full answer

Yuexiang Y. - "clarify: so does the 5% drop a sudden drop or overtime in the one week does it broadly drop 5% or it dropped only in some regions or in some segments like new acqusition / frequent active customers? or does the 5% drop also happened last year same period? DAU = acqusition x activation x retention segment: I will first quickly do some EDA to find out problem, like calculate the DAU drop in new customer, tenured customer, between regions to find out is there any difference. then I will also look"See full answer

Christopher K. - "In order to answer this question, I am going to do the following: Ask some clarifying questions Go through some major external and internal possible causes Hypothesize and test/valid Conclusion 1. Ask clarifying questions Any particular market? Is it a US market or a new market with less than 12-18 months of full operation US market What do you mean by a given city? - Metropolitan with plenty of public transportations (subway, bus, etc), a large city with limit"See full answer

Ben L. - "First I want to look at how Facebook stories overlaps with Facebook’s mission. I can see pretty instantly that stories stays true to Facebook’s mission with bringing the world together and connecting friends and families. I want to make sure I understand the product journey. Facebook stories allows users to post videos and photos. While also being able to add filters, music, and stickers. Users are also able to comment on other stories and react to them. Does that sound correct? Interview: Ye"See full answer

Jeff H. - "Google Pay currently makes money from a small percentage of interchange from each transaction. They also make money with Mobile recharge sim card fees. Questions Do we have a timeframe for this? How could we 10x this? Let's think about Alphabet's goal and vision to make the world more accessible and useful. To 10x it, we will need a combination of improvements, new revenue sources, and some paradigm shifting thinking. The goal in this case is monetization, and a steep on at t"See full answer

Aniket A. - "Clarification: Is it consumer facing or business? -- consumer Launch is global or regional? -- global Is this full blown launch or beta release? -- full blown What goal does this app serve? How is it aligned with the company goals? -- AI Chatbot Can you explain the strategic importance of the app? -- gain market share; compete with other players who are already ahead in the market Do we have any data around potential customers/TAM with this app? -- billions of users "See full answer

Alfredo M. - "First, I'd like to ask some clarifying questions and try to narrow down the scope of this question. Among them I would like to ask: Are we looking to optimize for a specific goal or metric? Eg: we want more users/queries or are we looking to increase revenue? Are we testing over a specific aspect of Bing? EG: UI, search quality results, recommendation engine, etc. Duration and size of the test. Available resources or constraints (teams, technology, budget) Now, to ass"See full answer

Shreya S. - "Firstly, I would like to be in a room with all the stakeholders (tech/business) and the decision makers. Now starts the analysis of the situation. Certain questions that I will be looking for an answer are- Is this a new issue? or an old one? What is the severity and priority of the feature in the release? In terms of business values. How long would it take the engineering team to fix the issue? Can we manage for a workaround meanwhile the issue gets fixed? What are the risks inv"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification Questions Understanding of Netflix -> clarification Clarification regarding the meaning of logged into the platform -> not coming back or they are logged out From how long they we been seeing this issue and is this issue gradual? Which demography or geography are we talking about? The metrics which we are tracking are actually working or not? Internal Factors Any infrastructure problem, frequently "App not responding" or frequently auto log out? Any pa"See full answer

Ammro H. - "Clarifying questions: What do we mean by a video conferencing app? Zoom or Messenger? A: More like Zoom Is the app for B2B users or C2C users? A: Dealer's choice What stage is this app at? Early-stage or has been in the market for a while? A: Current Player This question will help decide if you will focus on Adoption or Engagement and retention... Is there a specific market or user group we need to focus on? A: Dealer's choice Is it a paid or free service? A: Both The structure"See full answer