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  • Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • McKinsey logoAsked at McKinsey 

    "The cases where data is under heavy outlier influence. Since mean fluctuates due to the presence of an outlier, median might be a better measure"

    Himani E. - "The cases where data is under heavy outlier influence. Since mean fluctuates due to the presence of an outlier, median might be a better measure"See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Statistics & Experimentation
  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 

    "This is a pretty straightforward Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewe"

    Exponent - "This is a pretty straightforward Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewe"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "I will sit with the client to understand the requirement and priority. On the basis of the priority I will make a sprint plan with team where I will focus on the high priority items first. once sprint plan is done I will distribute roles and responsibility. In daily stand ups I will make sure about ant obstacle team is facing. Regularly check the backlog. I will check the project health daily using JIRA. If everything is going as planned I will release the first increment in"

    Priyanka A. - "I will sit with the client to understand the requirement and priority. On the basis of the priority I will make a sprint plan with team where I will focus on the high priority items first. once sprint plan is done I will distribute roles and responsibility. In daily stand ups I will make sure about ant obstacle team is facing. Regularly check the backlog. I will check the project health daily using JIRA. If everything is going as planned I will release the first increment in"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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  • "I started going through the different main area of focus stakeholder alignment with Product and engineering; resource alignment getting it into the backlog and then prioritization spoke about Sprint planning and timelines and timely communication back to stakeholders to be on track for this end to end demo / pilot options (but HM already wasn't too happy about the response and asked me the Question again)"

    Anonymous Hummingbird - "I started going through the different main area of focus stakeholder alignment with Product and engineering; resource alignment getting it into the backlog and then prioritization spoke about Sprint planning and timelines and timely communication back to stakeholders to be on track for this end to end demo / pilot options (but HM already wasn't too happy about the response and asked me the Question again)"See full answer

    Product Marketing Manager
    Execution
  • "licensing violations for mis-use, integrity of the data (how often is data refreshed), unstructured/garbage data, potential to download virus, mis-interpreted data, unreliability of system (i.e. 3rd party unplanned downtime),"

    Tiffanie K. - "licensing violations for mis-use, integrity of the data (how often is data refreshed), unstructured/garbage data, potential to download virus, mis-interpreted data, unreliability of system (i.e. 3rd party unplanned downtime),"See full answer

    Technical
  • "Opentable is integrated with google maps and can be used to book tables at restaurants. The idea is to extend the services for desks and offices. Market Opportunity With recent work from home and hybrid work structure, 2 days office etc. Many companies are moving to hotelling offices and reservation systems for the desk. Assigning a permanent/dedicated desk to the employees will not be most efficient use of the real estate. So a shared structure will be more efficient where employees can shar"

    Himant G. - "Opentable is integrated with google maps and can be used to book tables at restaurants. The idea is to extend the services for desks and offices. Market Opportunity With recent work from home and hybrid work structure, 2 days office etc. Many companies are moving to hotelling offices and reservation systems for the desk. Assigning a permanent/dedicated desk to the employees will not be most efficient use of the real estate. So a shared structure will be more efficient where employees can shar"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Discord logoAsked at Discord 

    "This is a pretty straightforward Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewe"

    Exponent - "This is a pretty straightforward Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewe"See full answer

    Product Manager
  • "Zero in on the problem, the expectations of user are to find a restaurant but their feed is uninspired so they may bounce out of Yelp. Identify the impact size of user feeling like discovery is not personalised enough by seeing % of users that selected a restaurant from the homepage If large enough, I will look at who is likely the ones that want personalisation and why? Do they feel like they want to try new restaurants or are they finding it difficult to find restaurants they have been"

    Chermaine Y. - "Zero in on the problem, the expectations of user are to find a restaurant but their feed is uninspired so they may bounce out of Yelp. Identify the impact size of user feeling like discovery is not personalised enough by seeing % of users that selected a restaurant from the homepage If large enough, I will look at who is likely the ones that want personalisation and why? Do they feel like they want to try new restaurants or are they finding it difficult to find restaurants they have been"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Machine Learning
    +2 more
  • "This problem can be solved with two approaches Iterative approach Recursive approach Quite easy to think about the iterative approach, you can make use of a while loop in that case. But what if you want to make use of previously computed values? That case going for the recursive solution is quite useful. class Collatz: def init(self) -> None: self.cache = {} self.steps = 0 def steps_from(self, n) -> int: # base case if n == 1: "

    Frederick A. - "This problem can be solved with two approaches Iterative approach Recursive approach Quite easy to think about the iterative approach, you can make use of a while loop in that case. But what if you want to make use of previously computed values? That case going for the recursive solution is quite useful. class Collatz: def init(self) -> None: self.cache = {} self.steps = 0 def steps_from(self, n) -> int: # base case if n == 1: "See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
  • LinkedIn logoAsked at LinkedIn 
    Video answer for 'Should LinkedIn launch a separate messaging app?'
    Product Strategy
    Program Sense
  • "Clarifying Slack is a mature product in markets with millions of users B2B platform Expand customer base to school boards SWOT Technology is mature and well reputed Good privacy practices Threats Google school Microsoft learning education Zoom Journeys User Users for slack - for - school School boards 12 school boards Primary Secondary High Universities - Remote learning / Distant educations - Incumbents MooCs - Existing platform End Users: Students Teachers Administrators Ed"

    Hl M. - "Clarifying Slack is a mature product in markets with millions of users B2B platform Expand customer base to school boards SWOT Technology is mature and well reputed Good privacy practices Threats Google school Microsoft learning education Zoom Journeys User Users for slack - for - school School boards 12 school boards Primary Secondary High Universities - Remote learning / Distant educations - Incumbents MooCs - Existing platform End Users: Students Teachers Administrators Ed"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
    +1 more
  • Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Robinhood logoAsked at Robinhood 
    +1

    "Assuming this is a all-inclusive product management team only, I would structure the team as follows: Platform/Technical PM - 2 Front-End PM - 3 (mix of Senior and Assistant PM) Head of Product (People and Organisation behavious) and Principal Product Manager (in the weeds and strategy involved)"

    Devi K. - "Assuming this is a all-inclusive product management team only, I would structure the team as follows: Platform/Technical PM - 2 Front-End PM - 3 (mix of Senior and Assistant PM) Head of Product (People and Organisation behavious) and Principal Product Manager (in the weeds and strategy involved)"See full answer

    Behavioral
    Program Sense
  • "I would recreate the issue from my side to land at the 404 error and check which page has issues with retrieving the information. Booking.com has a lot of features and workflows inside the product, so I would see how many users use this flow which gives back this error and try to get the metrics to know the criticality of the issue. I would talk to the engineering team to look into this and discuss to set a deadline for the fix based on the criticality. Since the sales team reported this iss"

    Nirmmall K. - "I would recreate the issue from my side to land at the 404 error and check which page has issues with retrieving the information. Booking.com has a lot of features and workflows inside the product, so I would see how many users use this flow which gives back this error and try to get the metrics to know the criticality of the issue. I would talk to the engineering team to look into this and discuss to set a deadline for the fix based on the criticality. Since the sales team reported this iss"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • "Clarify can we limit traffic to normal commute time for people going to work in their city? Not include business travel? (Recognize traffic can mean: pick up drop off kids; errands, grocery, shopping, social, people who drive for their job etc.) limit to US? pre-covid time? Equation \# of working people in US x # of hours commute per year per person \# of working people in US 320M total population, 40M per age group of 10 years working age = 20 to 70, 5 groups of 1"

    Anonymous Cricket - "Clarify can we limit traffic to normal commute time for people going to work in their city? Not include business travel? (Recognize traffic can mean: pick up drop off kids; errands, grocery, shopping, social, people who drive for their job etc.) limit to US? pre-covid time? Equation \# of working people in US x # of hours commute per year per person \# of working people in US 320M total population, 40M per age group of 10 years working age = 20 to 70, 5 groups of 1"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Estimation
    +2 more
  • "Clarify: Is this an app that we want to house within the FB ecosystem, or will this be a standalone app? When we say food delivery, do we mean meals that are ready to eat? Groceries? Convenience store items? Assumptions: Let's make some assumptions here: App will not be housed in with FB ecosystem. This is not even an app associated with FB. Food delivery will be defined as delivering meal(s) that are ready to eat when you receive them **Goal: Take on the incumbents by addressi"

    Jonathan O. - "Clarify: Is this an app that we want to house within the FB ecosystem, or will this be a standalone app? When we say food delivery, do we mean meals that are ready to eat? Groceries? Convenience store items? Assumptions: Let's make some assumptions here: App will not be housed in with FB ecosystem. This is not even an app associated with FB. Food delivery will be defined as delivering meal(s) that are ready to eat when you receive them **Goal: Take on the incumbents by addressi"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "Spoiled food In a process I improved, I streamlined how tasks were assigned to reduce delays and confusion."

    Ruth A. - "Spoiled food In a process I improved, I streamlined how tasks were assigned to reduce delays and confusion."See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    Product Manager
    Product Design
    +1 more
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