Interview Questions

Saurabh K. - "Ask a follow up question : What is the primary goal of expanding into a new vertical ? Food vertical company may want to expand to a new vertical (say Grocery) for the following reasons : Attract new customers interested in grocery delivery instead of food delivery Increase usage/order frequency from existing customers Increase revenue and LTV of existing as well as potentially new customers Benefit from synergies between existing delivery engine by improving utilization of their network"See full answer

Musonda C. - "TCP and UDP are ways in which data is transferred over the internet. TCP needs to have a connection between the two hosts in order for data to be transferred, while UDP begin the transfer without waiting for a connection between the two hosts. This makes UDP faster, but not as reliable as TCP because there is a chance the data transfer wont happen in UDP due to the uncertainty of the connection. TCP is used where reliable data transfer is crucial e.g file transfers, email, web browsing and UDP"See full answer

Anzhe M. - "Not my answer, but rather the details of this question. It should include the following functions: int insertNewCustomer(double revenue) -> returns a customer ID (assume auto-incremented & 0-based) int insertNewCustomer(double revenue, int referrerID) -> returns a customer ID (assume auto-incremented & 0-based) Set getLowestKCustomersByMinTotalRevenue(int k, double minTotalRevenue) -> returns customer IDs Note: The total revenue consists of the revenue that this customer bring"See full answer

Adib M. - "Manage Programs that are in flight Track the progress vs Plan and see if things are on track, falling behind Monitor Risks and update current and any new risks identified and mitigation approach Communicate updates to stakeholders (weekly/biweekly as agreed) Communicate status to peer TPM and partnering teams Daily sync with Engg (like a timeboxed daily Standup to understand Daily Plan and any impediments raised that need resolving) Facilitate Reviews with Product Manager as features"See full answer

Mark M. - "I don't have experience working with alot of Biological Scientists. Most of my experience comes with Data Scientists. Described how I used ideation techniques like brainstorming and other creative ways to get people to find common ground. I also mentioned how I like to do survey's before meetings to prompt people and also get unbiased opnions"See full answer

Cristian A. - "I have this approach of: 30% seniors, to help the semi senior to grow. 30% to 35% semi seniors, to help the jr to grow. 37% to 40% jr or software engineers. With this approach and can foster a culture of grow but also be prepared to rotation of the team. And if you have to add more people, the onboarding is more simple."See full answer

José N. - "My clarifying questions : what's the impact of the bug ? / responses : intermittent, no platform stability at risk, but a feature, many customer rely on this buggy feature what's the estimation of the user impacted ? / responses : 65% of the users how long to figure out a solution ? / reponses : 1 week My action plan : delay the publish of the release in order to protect the brand identity and customer trust talk to the big customer to explain the situation with transparency and nego"See full answer

Anonymous - "Understand the rationale around why another PM has an opposing opinion. At the end of the day it cannot be your word against mine and the opinion has to be data-based. Taking time to listen and asking clarification questions will promote a healthy partnership Once we get the perspective, Look for data points that can support my POV over the other PMs POV Lastly evaluate if we can land on a 51-49% approach where we find a middle ground to accommodate another pm's opinion/solution as"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

BC - "Continuous learning is a core value of mine; I want to positively impact others starting from the people around me. That means, supporting my coworkers, a team, and an organization that is committed to thoughtfully solving and resolving others pain points. As long as design is able to open these opportunities for me, I plan to continue walking this path with the end goal of seeing how this attitude can blossom, influence, and compound at scale."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