Interview Questions

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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +2

    "Restaurant Types High-end Fast-food Regular User Types Restaurants – seeking operational efficiency and increased revenue. Customers – categorized by group size and dining intent: 2–4 Friends/Family – casual dining. Solo Diners – convenience and quick service. Groups > 4 – shared orders and split bills. Goal Design a tablet solution to achieve product-market fit by addressing key pain points and driving high ad"

    Brandy L. - "Restaurant Types High-end Fast-food Regular User Types Restaurants – seeking operational efficiency and increased revenue. Customers – categorized by group size and dining intent: 2–4 Friends/Family – casual dining. Solo Diners – convenience and quick service. Groups > 4 – shared orders and split bills. Goal Design a tablet solution to achieve product-market fit by addressing key pain points and driving high ad"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • +5

    "Functional Requirement Ingest Book Reviews in real time User in the website needs specify title tho search books, return response is the list of reviews on the books. Non Functional Requirement: User get real-time book reviews> It nees to handle the search among 1 million of active users daily"

    Simon O. - "Functional Requirement Ingest Book Reviews in real time User in the website needs specify title tho search books, return response is the list of reviews on the books. Non Functional Requirement: User get real-time book reviews> It nees to handle the search among 1 million of active users daily"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    System Design
    +1 more
  • +4

    "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    Execution
    +1 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    +9

    "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,"

    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

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Design a great gas station.'
    +7

    "A gas station is a place to refuel our cars to a set amount, pay for it, and get out. What do we mean by great - do we want to revamp the experience of a gas station? Yes. Who are we? Let's say we are one of the big oil dealerships in the US. OK, so we are looking at building this in the US? Yes. Is this for a specific type of gas station - for trucks, normal cars, or other special vehicles? Assume it's for normal cars. We are a big oil dealership and we want to revamp our gas stations."

    Gokul S. - "A gas station is a place to refuel our cars to a set amount, pay for it, and get out. What do we mean by great - do we want to revamp the experience of a gas station? Yes. Who are we? Let's say we are one of the big oil dealerships in the US. OK, so we are looking at building this in the US? Yes. Is this for a specific type of gas station - for trucks, normal cars, or other special vehicles? Assume it's for normal cars. We are a big oil dealership and we want to revamp our gas stations."See full answer

    Product Design
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +4

    "I: Design a banking app for kids S: Sure, let me start with clarifying questions. What is our goal for building this app? I: To create financial literacy early in childhood and also increase our customer base. S: Sure. Are we going to launch it globally or in any specific geography or demography? I: Globally. S: Sure, Any resource or time constraints to keep in mind because I need to prioritize the features on the roadmap based on that? Also, are we launching it on iOS or Android? I: No resource"

    Sameer S. - "I: Design a banking app for kids S: Sure, let me start with clarifying questions. What is our goal for building this app? I: To create financial literacy early in childhood and also increase our customer base. S: Sure. Are we going to launch it globally or in any specific geography or demography? I: Globally. S: Sure, Any resource or time constraints to keep in mind because I need to prioritize the features on the roadmap based on that? Also, are we launching it on iOS or Android? I: No resource"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Precision - Out of all the things we picked as correct, how many were actually correct? recall - Out of all the things that were truly correct, how many did we actually find?"

    Vineet M. - "Precision - Out of all the things we picked as correct, how many were actually correct? recall - Out of all the things that were truly correct, how many did we actually find?"See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Statistics & Experimentation
  • +1

    "This situation requires balancing business urgency with technical stability. Here's how I'd approach it: 1. Understand the Business Requirement Clarify why the new requirement is urgent. What’s the impact if it's delayed? Is it revenue-generating, compliance-related, or competitive? 2. Assess the Bugs Work with engineering to understand:Root cause: Are the bugs pointing to a deeper systemic issue? Severity and impact: Are they blocking users or just edge cases?"

    Tesfaye M. - "This situation requires balancing business urgency with technical stability. Here's how I'd approach it: 1. Understand the Business Requirement Clarify why the new requirement is urgent. What’s the impact if it's delayed? Is it revenue-generating, compliance-related, or competitive? 2. Assess the Bugs Work with engineering to understand:Root cause: Are the bugs pointing to a deeper systemic issue? Severity and impact: Are they blocking users or just edge cases?"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
  • Oracle logoAsked at Oracle 
    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • +12

    "Assuming this product is independent of FB product family and we are thinking of building an independent product. Goal: Make it easy for users to simplify the appointment process with the doctor. Success: Number of appointments made, repeat appointments made. Lets understand who are the key personas involved here: Doctors/Clinics (Excluding dentists) Patients/Users For this problem, I want to focus on the patient persona and go deeper into their problems. The various user segments ar"

    P K. - "Assuming this product is independent of FB product family and we are thinking of building an independent product. Goal: Make it easy for users to simplify the appointment process with the doctor. Success: Number of appointments made, repeat appointments made. Lets understand who are the key personas involved here: Doctors/Clinics (Excluding dentists) Patients/Users For this problem, I want to focus on the patient persona and go deeper into their problems. The various user segments ar"See full answer

    Product Design
  • Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
    +1 more
  • +11

    "Clarification questions: What does an increase in usage mean? Microsoft wants to grow its market share in the browser segment Why do you want to increase the usage? Increase in IE usage would increase Bing advertising revenue Are you targeting any specific platforms to increase usage in? You tell me Are there any geo's of specific interest? worldwide Would it be fair to assume that the increase in usage is represented with an increase in the metrics - "Increase in no. of requ"

    P K. - "Clarification questions: What does an increase in usage mean? Microsoft wants to grow its market share in the browser segment Why do you want to increase the usage? Increase in IE usage would increase Bing advertising revenue Are you targeting any specific platforms to increase usage in? You tell me Are there any geo's of specific interest? worldwide Would it be fair to assume that the increase in usage is represented with an increase in the metrics - "Increase in no. of requ"See full answer

    Product Strategy
  • "We were working on a very high stake migration project where were suppose to migrate all the traffic (more than 40 million users per day) from legacy to modern micro-services based architecture. Before making this massive migration decision, company has already developed a lot of services outside monolith and we were suppose to utilise those services. Some these services there were PADs responsible to communicate the specific vendor APIs. For each vendor we had a dedicated PAD. Fast forward"

    Mohammad shahid S. - "We were working on a very high stake migration project where were suppose to migrate all the traffic (more than 40 million users per day) from legacy to modern micro-services based architecture. Before making this massive migration decision, company has already developed a lot of services outside monolith and we were suppose to utilise those services. Some these services there were PADs responsible to communicate the specific vendor APIs. For each vendor we had a dedicated PAD. Fast forward"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • +2

    "select employeename, employeeid, salary, department, DR from ( select employeename, employeeid, salary, dense_rank() over (partition by department order by salary desc) DR, department from employee ) where DR <=3 order by department, DR"

    Sreeram reddy B. - "select employeename, employeeid, salary, department, DR from ( select employeename, employeeid, salary, dense_rank() over (partition by department order by salary desc) DR, department from employee ) where DR <=3 order by department, DR"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • +5

    "How often do we get 15 min to answer a question? Wondering isn't the expectation to answer this in 3-5 min?"

    Anonymous Raven - "How often do we get 15 min to answer a question? Wondering isn't the expectation to answer this in 3-5 min?"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • LinkedIn logoAsked at LinkedIn 
    Software Engineer
    System Design
  • +3

    "In my role as a Product Owner, I was developing a platform for a logistics company. As a PO and that too of a digital agency, my work was mostly before-end-to-after-end, it would start from pitching, strategy, product management, launch, funding deck prep. In mid of the product management cycle, the client starts adding pressure to deliver way before the deadline, as they had found the PE firm that conceptually was ready to start funding discussion, since this was not scoped before the start,"

    Umang S. - "In my role as a Product Owner, I was developing a platform for a logistics company. As a PO and that too of a digital agency, my work was mostly before-end-to-after-end, it would start from pitching, strategy, product management, launch, funding deck prep. In mid of the product management cycle, the client starts adding pressure to deliver way before the deadline, as they had found the PE firm that conceptually was ready to start funding discussion, since this was not scoped before the start,"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Databricks logoAsked at Databricks 

    "user table - with userid, username, email, phonenumber, accountcreateddate exercises table - types of exercises - indoor walk, outdoor walk, running, stairs, cycling, swimming etc - exerciseid, exercisetype date table - date, day, month, year - with dateid Session table - userid, sessiondateid(linked to dateid in date table), exerciseid, distance covered, calories spent, starttime, endtime "

    Sreeram reddy B. - "user table - with userid, username, email, phonenumber, accountcreateddate exercises table - types of exercises - indoor walk, outdoor walk, running, stairs, cycling, swimming etc - exerciseid, exercisetype date table - date, day, month, year - with dateid Session table - userid, sessiondateid(linked to dateid in date table), exerciseid, distance covered, calories spent, starttime, endtime "See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Data Modeling
  • " Compare alternate houses i.e for each house starting from the third, calculate the maximum money that can be stolen up to that house by choosing between: Skipping the current house and taking the maximum money stolen up to the previous house. Robbing the current house and adding its value to the maximum money stolen up to the house two steps back. package main import ( "fmt" ) // rob function calculates the maximum money a robber can steal func maxRob(nums []int) int { ln"

    VContaineers - " Compare alternate houses i.e for each house starting from the third, calculate the maximum money that can be stolen up to that house by choosing between: Skipping the current house and taking the maximum money stolen up to the previous house. Robbing the current house and adding its value to the maximum money stolen up to the house two steps back. package main import ( "fmt" ) // rob function calculates the maximum money a robber can steal func maxRob(nums []int) int { ln"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
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