Interview Questions

Michelle D. - "I'd tell the interviewer that I'd start off with clarifying the question to make sure I understand it correctly (see 1 below). Then, I'd tell the interviewer my approach to make sure they know what to expect as I talk through. Approach would start with discussing the mission and connecting a north star metric (NSM) to the mission, then discuss key product metrics that are inputs towards NSM. If there's time at the end and if the interviewer wants to go down this path, we should also talk about t"See full answer

Manu G. - "Design an alarm clock for blind people Clarifying question: Does it have to be a physical product or software? Your call Do I need to think about the long-term implications of the product from a strategy perspective or a single product? single product What are the metrics this company will focus on? Engagement What industry are we in? (start-up, google/Amazon, etc) - Startup What do we mean by blind? - ppl who cannot see anything, or people who still have sense of"See full answer

Anchal V. - "supervised learning: model is trained on the labeled data unsupervised learning: no labels provided - model learns by finding patterns , structure and groupings in the data. Semi-supervised learning: use small set of labels to guide learning for the larger pool of unlabeled data. reinforcement learning: leans by interacting with students the environment, receives reward and penalties based on actions self supervised: no labelled data . The model makes its own practice problems by"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

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

Patrick W. - "Clarify: Any specific types of groups (families or business)? Type of travel (air, train)? Global or domestic? Assumptions: Users have interest in travel. Content within Meta apps can help FB, whatsapp, Instagram. Have access to user data with travel preferences and budget. Resources to interact with travel businesses and institutions. Constraints: Users typically think of meta apps in the early discovery phase of travel, typically use travel company apps to complete experience e.g. booking,"See full answer

Mrinalini R. - "A good answer is describing an experience where you either proposed something that was selected after discussion or an alternate approach was taken, or you disagreed with a decision and argued for something else, either successfully or not. A good answer would be you had cogent arguments, the decision went another way for some reason, and you then fully backed the decision (agree to disagree is another way of stating it). You did not take it personally and you fully committed to the deci"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

Astro S. - "What are they looking for in the answer? "See full answer

Simran M. - "To answer why Spotify introduced Podcasts, I would like to use 3C framework- Customer, Competitors and Company. Customers We have seen Spotify has a high WAU. This means users are engaged to the platform for music. Listeners need some new trend to listen to while going to the gym for example, or being stuck in a traffic. Sense of listening to something productive is what users need these days. Podcasts are lesser commitment than audiobooks because of short episode length"See full answer

Rahul .. - "''' Problem Statement: Design a simplified Robinhood-like stock trading platform. Requirements: User Management: createuser(userid, name, initial_balance): Create user with cash balance getbalance(userid): Get user's cash balance deposit(user_id, amount): Add funds to account withdraw(user_id, amount): Withdraw funds (if sufficient balance) Stock Operations: updatestockprice(symbol, price): Update current price of a stock getstockprice(symb"See full answer

Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer

Rohit K. - "As the Product Manager for Google Play Store Ads, our goal with the ad ranking algorithm is to create a win-win ecosystem. We want to connect users with relevant and engaging apps they'll find valuable, while simultaneously delivering high-quality installs and engagement for our advertisers, ultimately driving sustainable revenue for Google. To achieve this, our ad ranking algorithm will be guided by the following core principles: Relevance First: We will prioritize ads tha"See full answer

Ra R. - "In my time at Snapp! I was in charge of communicating the product backlog to our CEO. We had a shared Jira board that he had access to and I made specifically for him. One day he saw me in the office and said he doesn’t know anything about our backlog and that’s because I failed to communicate with him. I got upset at first because of the fact that I made the dashboard exclusively for him. But I tried to ask questions to understand his point of view in depth. He then mentioned he doesn't have t"See full answer

Tiffany A. - "SELECT customer_id, order_date, orderid AS secondearliestorderid FROM ( SELECT order_id, customer_id, order_date, ROWNUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY customerid, orderdate ORDER BY orderid ASC) AS rank FROM orders ) WHERE rank = 2 ORDER BY orderdate, customerid `"See full answer

Anonymous Aardvark - "QUESTION: Imagine that you are a PM that owns the post booking experience at Airbnb.How would you solve for the worst post-booking experience? Follow-up questions: Specific business goal in mind? (no) What is my scope? Do I own all post booking across product category? Or is there a specific product that I am focussing on (events, homes, specific home duration)? (you chose) Am I focussing on the user - renter or event goer? Or the creator - host or event creator? (your choice) Do yo"See full answer

Kai H. - "I have 2 product feedbacks. I think it has been mentioned by many users of the platform. Provide a text summary of the videos so that we do not have to watch through the whole interview practice Actually comment if the interview was good or not, currently we do not really know if the answer given is of high quality "See full answer