Analytical Interview Questions

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

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

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

Disha - "TikTok → short-form video platform where users share, post, comment, and like each other’s videos Clarifying Questions Define Active → Users who are opening the app at least once a day for a particular duration say 1 min Geography? Consider India for this case Is the source/BI Tool where we saw the drop valid enough? TikTok is both on the app as well as browser - Where are we seeing the drop? Is there a particular platform wherein we are seeing the drop? Android or iOS New"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

Krishnan S. - "I would start with few clarifying questions for the investigation and diagnosis of the problem. Timing and volume: For how long is the peak surge being noticed? Past few days / weeks / months? Clarify about 'certain times'. Is it weekday Morning (Peak), Morning (off peak), Afternoon, Afternoon (peak), Evening (peak), Evening (off peak) or weekend? Do we info on vehicle type that have the most volume? Cars, trucks, commercial vehicles, etc., Location and convenience of the gas st"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

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

Dolores - "Clarify question: Google flight search: flights.google.com (app or website) Allows users to search for flights, sort, or filter To book, you are directed to airline or aggregator sites Vision of the product: Help users find and compare flights they want to take Users: Flyers (primary user) Airlines and aggregator sites (prices, avail, options) Flight inventory providers Success metrics: Number of users/flyers like DAUs or MAUs % flyers (DAUs or MAUs) which are repeat Success"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

Karthik M. - "I would always pick a specific product and make a case. Answering this question without a specific product in mind makes the answer unstructured in my opinion. For instance, I would pick Gmail as an example to answer this and structure my response. Clarifications & Assumptions Let us pick a specific product and structure our response - for instance - let us pick Gmail as the product that you want to analyse and make a Go / No Recommendation to Sunset the Product. Overall Google Revenu"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

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

Meenakshi sundaram M. - "Structure: 1. Ask Clarifying Questions 2. Look at external factors 3. Look at Internal factors ( Slice the data aross different cuts and plan accordingly) Clarifying Questions: What's an outbound message? Is it something Linkedin users send among each other? Decline trends: Is the decline steep or gradual? From when, are we seeing this decline (Say since a week, fortnight, month, etc) External Factors: Have we seen any competition led changes/ new campaigns etc? Have we see"See full answer