Analytical Interview Questions

Prateek S. - "Clarifying questions: Why are we fixing the roads? Is it due to temporary damage or something structural has gone wrong? What is our purpose behind fixing the roads? Increase mobility in an area? Reduce inequality? reduce crime? Assumptions: Roads have had temporary damage due to rain / storm We know the specific roads which are bad and will need to be fixed Want to increase commercial traffic. Want people to visit a specific area which has bad roads and slow moving traffic. W"See full answer

Ian S. - "Clarifying Question: Are we talking about mission-oriented success or business-oriented success? [Let's assume mission-oriented] Let's start by talking about where Pages fit into the mission of Facebook. Then we'll cover some relevant metrics, identify which are most important for measuring the success of Pages, and then talk about some trade-offs as part of a final recommendation. Mission: Facebook's mission is to empower people to build community and to bring people closer togeth"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

Pree M. - "Let's split the experience in four parts: Time between order is placed and order is waiting to be prepped by the shopper. Time between order is prepped by the shopper and ready to be picked by the driver. Time when it's out for delivery. Post delivery experience. Now lets think through what can do wrong? How do we define wrong? A wrong would be anything where a customer has a negative experience. Let's dive into the when things could potentially go wrong. **order is placed and"See full answer

Kena K. - "Lyft’s mission: To become the world’s best transportation company CQ: · Region: USA · Metrics to improve: Engagement User persona: · Passengers · Drivers Will consider passengers persona for this case. Use case / pain points: Exact pick up location is not visible on the map Not able to communicate exact location to the driver due to unknown location How to change the pick-up location in case passenger has to move around Features: Passenger can share a pictur"See full answer

Nayla D. - "Instagram is social media app where you can share photo and video to others. Impressions is an important metrics to track because it shows how many contents that users see. Clarify Questions: Is this drop happen suddenly or gradually? - Gradually How long has it been happening? - Last 3 months Is it happen globally or in certain region? - Globally Is the drop happen to all user segments (age, new/existing, active/less active users)? - all user segments When calculating an impressions,"See full answer

Gaurav C. - "Clarifying Questions: Do we have any specific goal in mind for this new product, for example targeting new audience, expansion to new places , catering to new need etc. · I am going to assume targeting new audience Do we have any constraints? · No constraints When you say restaurants does it mean casual restaurants, pubs, food joints 5 star hotels etc. · I am going to assume all kind of restaurants who have already registered there establishments on Swiggy Structure User Segme"See full answer

Raymond W. - "Clarifications/assumptions - we're only interested in opening and closing hours, not serving times e.g. breakfast or lunch time format etc will be local only interested in regular hours not special holiday hours Potential users/data providers (ranked by order of authority) Businesses/Advertisers Consumers Google Goal Coverage Prioritising the most popular restaurants, or those who are willing to invest in advertising Accurate, but conservative - better be wrong to"See full answer

Y C. - "One way to develop project metrics is around what problem the project is trying to solve within a particular timeframe, at a cost of x dollars and with y quality Scope: Did the project deliver as per the problem statement - over and beyond Resources metrics: Planned resources were utilized to contribute to the success Budget: Did the cost of the project implementation be under the budget or over? Schedule: In-flight milestones were completed on time or not as per the plan Was the proje"See full answer

Smriti G. - "Product -> Self service Portal North Star Metric-> No. of proposal downloaded Problem-> 15% Decrease in Proposal downloads RCA-> System Health check-> Bugs, errors in pages during session, site crashed, server inavailability, new feature was introduced which made it difficult for user to navigate. If there was problem of server in-availability, is load balancer working fine/server is not available? If problem was with feature-> What feature was introduced? do an A/B test with older feature Fu"See full answer

Hems S. - "I will start with clarifications: Q: How do you define "healthy" marketplace? A: When there is a balance in demand and supply Q: If we have balance, is it fair to assume, lot of transactions will happen? A: Sure Q: Also, is it fair to assume well known tokens on the platform already have a healthy marketplace with enough buyers and sellers. The problem is mainly with new tokens that will be introduced? A: Thats a fair assumption Q: Its okay to limit scope for this exercise to the CB retail a"See full answer

Anonymous Cat - "Good practice video; however, at minute 6:40 in this video, the interviewer confirmed the app version causes no issue! While the final answer was the app version!"See full answer

stash - "Clarification What category of Marketplace are we setting a goal for as there are several sub-marketplaces? —> We are looking at overall Marketplace Are we focused globally or in the US? —> Lets limit to the US To set the Goal for FB marketplace I will start by describing the product, go over goals for the users (buyers / sellers) and the business (FB), review user actions, list metrics and then summarize our goal for marketplace and choose a few keys metrics to track our progress towa"See full answer

Gk K. - " can we use blomfilters to check existing usernames? and if both are creating at a time, like both are choosing some abcd , here system checks whether user with that name exists or not. so while checking , it will add an entry on redis (example) with this name as key and obtain lock using some distributed lock. , it will lock on that name. (like seat booking in bookmyshow) with some TTL value. so this check will happen once user enters his interest username and also while submit .. 2 times che"See full answer

Mohammad shahid S. - " Not Setting up the right expectation with users so that they come prepared and plan for application. Users should be informed in advance about the document required, kind of questions they can expect and average time they are going to spend. Inform about the money too if there is an application fee. Too many questions where users are suppose to write paragraphs Seeking sensitive mandatory information Reality is different from expectation setting Too long to too much time consum"See full answer

Scarlett S. - "Clarifying and definition of the metrics By creations down by 5%, how do you calculate the drop? the how % user create stories has dropped, or the overal stories being created fewer, could be average stories created by a user drops. Basically, how do you calculate the creation and drop? They have similarities, but it reveals diffrent type user behahviors. Assume they say fewer people create fewer stories , both, Just to be confirm that, we saw a 5% change/dig in how many user"See full answer

Anonymous Salmon - "clarify: paid users, annual subscription user segmentation: levels; active vs dormant; age; regions use cases & pain points solution brainstorm: retention = activation + engagement + resurrection; prioritization of solutions execution"See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Reduce scope of product for the initial launch. Streamline the PRD to an actual MVP and use the current PRD (that takes 6 months to build) for the V1"See full answer