Interview Questions

Apeksha J. - "Assumption: This will be part of the existing Airbnb application. Airbnb Mission: Belong anywhere. Stakeholders using AirBnB: Travellers:Non-locals travelling to a diff place for short duration to visit a new place Hosts: offering their place for stay to traveller User segmentation: Travel Nomads(Solo)- staying for a long time and working during visit Families coming to stay for vacation (choosing this user group as they would need additional furnitures the most) Group Travelers - ex"See full answer

Nick S. - "[I'm not sure whether the answer below is the best, as I have not gotten result and feedback from my interview] Ans: I would solve by first using a VAE-style model, to create a latent space embedding that translates user description to generate images. Training would be done on the 1000 avatar images and 100000 descriptions, following this scheme: VAE: description -> encoder -> latent space -> decoder -> image Q: "OK, but that means you're limiting the generated images to be only the 1000 imag"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical product rather that one already built. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature **Apply a UX flow to drive a"See full answer

Ben G. - "Situation - A time where I encouraged my work team to be more creative and innovative was while I was directing design at Blade Urban Air Mobility. Long story short, they had no creative programs in place for cross collaboration and innovation. Action - I introduced Figma into the product workflow, and set up time with the technical team to demo and go over the basics of the program. This allowed everyone to collaborate on the designs, leave comments and streamline the process of creative dev"See full answer

Hillary N. - "I needed to gain insight into the reasons why customers were retained by Upsie. I decided to use key driver analysis to see what I could learn about the factors motivating customer loyalty. I conducted a survey with these questions: How likely would you be to recommend Upsie on a scale of 1-10? How satisfied are you with Upsie's warranty price on a scale of 1-10? How satisfied are you with Upsie's warranty coverage on a scale of 1-10? How satisfied are you with Upsie's warranty cla"See full answer

Aiden L. - "clarification define a handyman: someone who's paid to do minor renovations or domestic repairs. define the app: standalone or within facebook or meta's app family? why are we designing this? should I come up with a goal (engagement, monetization)? constraints (financials/timeline)? goal: adoption. since it's a new app, i want ppl to adopt first and then monetize the users. I'd define a handyman as someone who's paid by app users to do minor fixes, such as unc"See full answer

Arista V. - "Assumption: Considering the launch of a product r a service based company in a new market: 1) Need of the product / service - consumer needs 2) Presence of competitor and their market share 3) Consumer behaviour - can this be changed if such need doesn't exist explicitly( ex: ride hailing) 4) Existing price of the product 5) Marketing spend to launch in that market and opportunity to make revenue"See full answer

Ayush B. - "focus was on tradeoffs of diff object detection algorithms, data collection and labelling, foundational models, followup: not working well in production, retraining/active learning"See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Target Consumers: corporate clients - for business meetings students (in school, college) aspirants who want to take competitive exams/tests Identify underserved customer needs: re-application leads to post-it's not being sticky enough space crunch so user needs to be precise post-its need to stick from all 4 corners for it to be readable and so it folds less writing with pen, marker gets imprinted on next page Define Value Proposition: a small piece of paper with concise list of"See full answer

Tanu M. - "Google Home is an app that is used by consumers to configure the smart devices for automating their home and making their home more reliable and easy to use. Clarifying questions : Do we have any time constraints by when we need to achieve this? IF we have to increase sales by 10x, it needs to focus on number of factors like increasing the partner base, improving user experience, and shift in thinking. What metrics we focus on Monetization - Making revenue 10x Number of"See full answer

IamaPM - "First I would clarify what ad manager is? Ad platform provided by meta which can be used by users across any meta product - marketplace, instagram, facebook? Questions Is this decline in any specific region? Is this decline specific to an app/ product like Instagram/ marketplace Has the MAU of Ad Manager (users clicking on ad manager without publishing) declined or increased? An increase here might mean that the total ads published has not decreased as such , but the ratio has changed"See full answer

AnonymousAxolotl - "Depends on what the ML model. If it's computationally heavy server side is best. If it's not, client side could be feasible, think of Apple Photos doing object recognition of photos on device, in this instance, the photos are on the device a long time and users are fine with waiting. So the use case important to consider. However broadly speaking, server side is most likely the best solution especially for this many users. Easier architecture to implement Example - client side you take"See full answer

Anonymous Eagle - "I generate insights through stakeholder requirements and the data I have in hand"See full answer