Interview Questions

Anonymous Ferret - "i do feel like the question itself is kind of confusing. Youtube does have a product called YouTube’s Analytics, which is a channel analytics tool for creator lol"See full answer

Steve Y. - "Define: How is daily post view calculated Isolate Issues: Data issue Time period Geo IOS vs Android vs Web Correlated Metrics in the funnel DAU Time spent/ scrolls Engagement - likes, comments External factors Competitor actions Big events Internal factors Product launch Feature change"See full answer

Prashasti S. - "Looking forward for the answers. My idea is to improve demand mechanics"See full answer

Anni P. - "I firstly discuss the brute force approach in O(n^2) time complexity , than i moved to O(nlogn) tine complexity than i discussed the O(n) time complexity and O(n) space complexity . But interviewer want more optimised solution , in O(n) time complexity without using extra space , The solution wants O(1) space complexity i have to do changes in same array without using any space . This method is something like i have to place positive values to its original position by swapping and rest negativ"See full answer

Srikant V. - "Used Recursive approach to traverse the binary search tree and sum the values of the nodes that fall within the specified range [low, high]"See full answer

Sahil A. - "Clarify: Zoom for business - we are referring to Zoom meetings for enterprise customers Are there any specific features or goals we want to track. Assumption - We are at overall zoom business for enterprise customers Is there any particular geography or demographics we want to look at - Assumption - we are looking at across the globe Goals: Zoom allows users to conduct meetings internally and externally with folks across the organization. Enterprise customers access Zoom with their cor"See full answer

Philip C. - "Assumptions Assume that the functionality of Meta Pay is the ability to send and receive payments to other Meta account holders. Payment infrastructure connects to bank accounts Assume users can maintain a balance in Meta Pay Assume life cycle of the product is post launch adoption phase Clarifying questions Can I send or receive payments to a meta user from a different platform? e.g., fb to IG > assume the answers is “yes” Where is it available? > Assume answer is “US” "See full answer

Dhruv S. - "Before proceeding, I just wanted to clarify we wanted to check for the impact of showing content from non-friends in users’ feeds, and here non-friends I would assume could be anyone, but mainly like content creators, and I am not including ads here. But I wanted to ask if there is any current logic as to what posts to show based on users' affinity to those posts, maybe basis the user engagement to Insta feed. now objective of this would be to improve the engagement of the platform, as if users"See full answer

Patrick B. - "Clarify what the business goals of Spotify is Depending on the stage, some companies care more about revenue growth, some about user growth and in rarer cases, about profit margins. In the case of Spotify, the company is still in growth stage so I will make some assumptions that user growth is the most important, followed by monetization. Plus, margin is relatively fixed due to the contracts with recording labels Recently, Spotify has invested heavily in podcast with goa"See full answer

A B. - "Great explanation on each of the components and their use. During the interview would a PM candidate be expected to go in-depth for capacity estimation (e.g. storage estimation, bandwidth estimation etc.?)"See full answer

Aditya S. - "From Product Management perspective: I would first start with some clarifying questions. Is this algorithm to be used across Play Store for all kinds of apps or for some specific catgeory of apps What is the major objective. Are you entering a new market and hence objective is to capture market OR already in an existing market and want to maximise profit (since Google, most likely second objective) I would like to experiment with algorithms and see results before finalising. This will nee"See full answer

Rjj - "I tried solving this problem and here is the recorded video for the answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1tOkeQjyI4 And here is the link to Excalidraw board - https://excalidraw.com/#json=uabNFHcZm5qNh8CInMvyh,Wn9Vf1ZhGdl_iBCQYFkYdw"See full answer

Anjali V. - "I feel this is more about "Describe a time when I failed or struggled" rather than "Project Failure"."See full answer

Alice S. - "Clarify understanding of the problem space. What does success look like? How is it measured? Platform specific? Market specific? Time period? Business goals? Then perform a funnel analysis to understand user journey and look for problems or opportunities. Choose a user segment to focus on. Identify different user segments and prioritise one. Summarise the goal of the user and the friction point. Brainstorm solutions. Come up with a number of rough solutions. Balance the business n"See full answer

Vanitha P. - "So basically, we are losing our overall users, we are seeing a drop in the no. of users logging in daily. Step 1-Clarifying questions: Is this across any certain segments of users, ike gen-Z or content creators etc? Is it affecting any particular segment of Instagram like stories, reels, content etc Step 2-Forming high-level hypothesis: External factors -Are competitors like TikTok or YouTube Shorts -Is it because of any seasonal changes (exam season etc) Internal factors -Are u"See full answer

Balaji G. - "This is the answer I have prepared. Please let me know your comments and how I can improve the answer. I have worked on many process improvement initiatives and projects. I want to share an initiative that I led and delivered while at my previous employer. It had a great impact on over 60 programs and projects across teams in six different countries. Analysts and program managers used to generate a monthly program performance report that deals with all aspects, including schedule, risks, costs"See full answer

Patrick B. - "Clarifying How does autoplay work? I presume it's how it's done today (no audio, start playing once the video is scrolled to be completely in the user's screen) Desktop or mobile? Which market is this? Users in US / Western Europe vs developing markets have different behaviors Goals & Metrics FB's mission is to help people build deeper connections. As a news feed PM, the goal is to make sure FB news feed is valuable to the users by being a great way to keep in touch with"See full answer

Ayush R. - "Clarifying Qs: Uber PM Business goals - revenue, user engagement Known customer needs Any trigger or prompt - post covid, things are getting back to normal. Observing demand for kids to travel alone within the city from point A to B Geo - US Uber mission -- Create opportunity through movement Uber strengths - Brand value Mobile tech GPC tracking Real-time traffic and routing algos Fleet of drivers Why we need this app for kids: Why would kids want to trav"See full answer

Urvashi G. - "YT threats →. Let's define threat - activities that reduce actual or growth rate for user base / watch time / $ User - what impacts user base, users’ watch time (why would users not use YT anymore?) Competition - all apps that compete for users' time spent on digital entertainment (VOD, social media apps like tiktok, vMVPDs) Safety, trust, privacy, digital well being No relevant content Distribution - platform bans, distribution deals falling through (eg smart TVs)"See full answer