"Honestly, I was a bit all over the place with this one. My structure was:
Meta Mission
Audiences
Thinking about journeys and pain points (TAM + Unmet Needs)
Brainstorm solutions
Prioritize solutions
MVP - Measure of success
Risks and tradeoffs
The interviewer kept trying to derail the conversation. I chose Group Volunteers (a group of people who want to volunteer together) as the audience, and in hindsight it was a poor choice. Because I chose that over individuals, I couldn't narrow down"
Brody C. - "Honestly, I was a bit all over the place with this one. My structure was:
Meta Mission
Audiences
Thinking about journeys and pain points (TAM + Unmet Needs)
Brainstorm solutions
Prioritize solutions
MVP - Measure of success
Risks and tradeoffs
The interviewer kept trying to derail the conversation. I chose Group Volunteers (a group of people who want to volunteer together) as the audience, and in hindsight it was a poor choice. Because I chose that over individuals, I couldn't narrow down"See full answer
"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"
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
"The single forward slash xpath is called the absolute xpath. The double forward slash is called the relative xpath. The double forward slash xpaths are the most preferrable ones as it directly points to the object by its name, id, label etc."
Santhiya V. - "The single forward slash xpath is called the absolute xpath. The double forward slash is called the relative xpath. The double forward slash xpaths are the most preferrable ones as it directly points to the object by its name, id, label etc."See full answer
"Problem statement
The water heater can currently be controlled only physically i.e. the user must be present infront of the heater to manage it.
Key value proposition
The user must be able to control the water heater remotely using an app (preferably via their mobile phone)
Target geo: USA, OS: both Android and iOS, Form factor: Mobile
Target market
Water heaters are used by everyone who lives in an area experiencing temperatures < 20 degree Celsius. The user uses the water heater eve"
Rahul J. - "Problem statement
The water heater can currently be controlled only physically i.e. the user must be present infront of the heater to manage it.
Key value proposition
The user must be able to control the water heater remotely using an app (preferably via their mobile phone)
Target geo: USA, OS: both Android and iOS, Form factor: Mobile
Target market
Water heaters are used by everyone who lives in an area experiencing temperatures < 20 degree Celsius. The user uses the water heater eve"See full answer
"Clarified with interviewer:
How it is used ?
user will give facebook page of school as input
What is the criteria for declaring school as duplicate ?
same name and location
used exposed APIs of parent service to create and maintain a inverted index [msg queue+spark].
Duplicate matching service will use elastic search [and filter out input school page]. Elastic will search and return results of school name and geospatial matching ."
A S. - "Clarified with interviewer:
How it is used ?
user will give facebook page of school as input
What is the criteria for declaring school as duplicate ?
same name and location
used exposed APIs of parent service to create and maintain a inverted index [msg queue+spark].
Duplicate matching service will use elastic search [and filter out input school page]. Elastic will search and return results of school name and geospatial matching ."See full answer
"Clarifying Questions:
Are we not being able to see any data at all ?
or are we not seeing the latest updated data?
In either case I can categorize this problem with 3 causes
System Issue
Is it a be a production bug , where node failure happened? (data load failure)
Did our event-engine schedule re-runs fail to run code that fetches underlying data?
Are the Dynamics team making some design changes on the tool which may go live and have triggered the DB not being refreshed ?
A"
Priyanka D. - "Clarifying Questions:
Are we not being able to see any data at all ?
or are we not seeing the latest updated data?
In either case I can categorize this problem with 3 causes
System Issue
Is it a be a production bug , where node failure happened? (data load failure)
Did our event-engine schedule re-runs fail to run code that fetches underlying data?
Are the Dynamics team making some design changes on the tool which may go live and have triggered the DB not being refreshed ?
A"See full answer
"My Name is swati i joined genpact in 2014 and from there i have spend 4 years in Audit & SOX Compliances and then next 5 years with investment accounting, my overall experience is good as per the expectation now looking for something more exciting to add in my carrier journey."
Swati A. - "My Name is swati i joined genpact in 2014 and from there i have spend 4 years in Audit & SOX Compliances and then next 5 years with investment accounting, my overall experience is good as per the expectation now looking for something more exciting to add in my carrier journey."See full answer
"Clarifying questions
Scope this down to borrowing and lending within US
Scope this down to just money and not other assets (crypto, gold etc.)
Scope this down to Facebook/Instagram app and not website etc.
Is this peer to peer lending? Or lending from financial institutions etc.? (Scope to peer to peer lending as that connects more with the mission). Lending for small business needs, etc. are scoped out for simplicity
**Mission Statement and how it is connected to this product ide"
Bhargava Y. - "Clarifying questions
Scope this down to borrowing and lending within US
Scope this down to just money and not other assets (crypto, gold etc.)
Scope this down to Facebook/Instagram app and not website etc.
Is this peer to peer lending? Or lending from financial institutions etc.? (Scope to peer to peer lending as that connects more with the mission). Lending for small business needs, etc. are scoped out for simplicity
**Mission Statement and how it is connected to this product ide"See full answer
"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"
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