Interview Questions

Diamonde H. - "I'm assuming we're negotiating because we want the vendor to do something unique for us that's possible but they've never done it before or that they do often but we want some sort of preferential treatment or pricing deal. I'm also assuming we're not desperate and have the upper hand. Pre-Call with vendors Define our ideal state Define our BATNA Vet and speak to at least 3-5 vendors (depending on market concentration) Objectively know what is possible within industry and with the vendo"See full answer

Judy W. - "Clarifying questions What do you mean by “mattress”? All types and sizes of mattress? Are we only looking at mattress in the household or includes the service industry? Assumption Assume that we are looking at mattress in the household only. Assume that the number of people who own more than one mattress is negligibly small relative to the total US population. Figure that 20% of people are couple and are sharing beds, and 5% are newborns sleeping with their parents. **Appro"See full answer

Ravi P. - "First Example I in my role as a engineering manager were designing homepage widget where we showing , how much sales the seller has made today . We were listening to order placed event , and then aggregating this information and showing to seller , Now there were cases where a sellers order might have been cancelled be user or by the seller or due to some breaches , as this can happen through multiple different channels and which were not audited , There was no full proof way to cover all the e"See full answer

Anonymous Crab - "Clarification questions : What do we mean by International - not home country(or US) , 1st International launch ? What is the product, physical / digital / service ? - Assuming Linkedin Can we test it - what is the cost of testing it - Assuming Linkedin , so we can test the market with a soft launch , ads before a full blown launch other parameters to consider - Target market & customers Attractiveness of market Underserved needs - early mass/ signs of demand gen - are there local pr"See full answer

Gabriella F. - "Table user is empy....... Problem with this problem "See full answer

Swetha C. - "Situation: As a product manager I used to manage more than 10+ products in my product portfolio that are completely internal facing. During Quarterly Business reviews one of our customer was doing a walk through of their business flow - how they use all my products and gather the data they need from them and do connection of the data (Downloading the data from every product individually and connecting the data from one product to another). It made we realize that this is very time consumi"See full answer

Robert W. - "A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is a type of cyberattack in which the attacker seeks to render a machine or network resources unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services. This is typically achieved by overwhelming the target with a flood of illegitimate requests. Steps to mitigate this type of attack can be varied but are not limited to the following: Network or Perimeter Security: Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Traffic and Rate Limiting, Realtime monitoring and"See full answer

Praveen V. - "to clarify, there is nothing specific about FB email. you expect all functionalities of typical email program like msft/google etc assume there are no restrictions. i.e. not restricted to use within FB only As always, fb has great suite of tools to bring people together and build community. its only natural that if i have fb account why not i have FB email address.... assume its a new product, they we need to acquire and engage users and then think about retention this case..... for any produ"See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "See full answer

Dan D. - "Used CIRCLES framework, and broke it into 3 age groups."See full answer

Books' B. - "Before answering this question, I am considering some key assumptions and will include them in my answer. Assumptions: I am assuming that "bring Waymo to market" means the sales of Waymo autonomous cars in the market in the form of Fleet and retail to customers. I assume that the Federal Vehicle Safety Laws and Governance are already in place, and Waymo cars are aligned with the law requirements. I am assuming that the Autonomous Level-5 capability development and certification are"See full answer

Sudhakar P. - "When talking about my role in current team, I talked following things: High level technologies used. Collaboration work I did with PM and Design counter parts. Web UX features that we built. Hiring and boot strapping team from 0. Given that there is straight match to the profile hiring manager was looking for, he got pretty excited and spent time selling the job."See full answer