"This happened in my previous job in [company X]. I was the Single threaded Owner for a new business growth initiative from this company to launch a new eCommerce supply chain solution that X was planning to experiment.
Being the single threaded owner, I was accountable for researching the customer problems and coming up with business goals and requirements, including identifying the engineering headcount needed to solve the customer pain point and eventually execute it across 11 different produ"
VictorSage - "This happened in my previous job in [company X]. I was the Single threaded Owner for a new business growth initiative from this company to launch a new eCommerce supply chain solution that X was planning to experiment.
Being the single threaded owner, I was accountable for researching the customer problems and coming up with business goals and requirements, including identifying the engineering headcount needed to solve the customer pain point and eventually execute it across 11 different produ"See full answer
"This is a Technical question. It tests your ability to understand high level technical concepts. Even though your job won't have any coding involved, you'll still need to understand these concepts. Being able to cover all these topics with clarity communicates confidence in your interviewer.
Unfortunately, there's no formula for technical questions, but some general tips are:
Use analogies when you can
Break your solution into clear, bite-size steps
Don't be afraid to use examples to b"
Exponent - "This is a Technical question. It tests your ability to understand high level technical concepts. Even though your job won't have any coding involved, you'll still need to understand these concepts. Being able to cover all these topics with clarity communicates confidence in your interviewer.
Unfortunately, there's no formula for technical questions, but some general tips are:
Use analogies when you can
Break your solution into clear, bite-size steps
Don't be afraid to use examples to b"See full answer
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"i'm going to Structure my answer like this:
make sure we both are on the same page by asking Qs
Users and their use cases/pain points
Prioritise the use cases
Brainstorm some solution
Priritize the solutions + Trade offs
Metrics define success
Clarifying Qs:
Who are we? ==> MicroSoft team who designs physical product
Whiteboard so==> mething where people can write/draw to present/explain/workout
Office==> workplace. Not schools/univ
Smart ==> It understands most o"
Suhasan C. - "i'm going to Structure my answer like this:
make sure we both are on the same page by asking Qs
Users and their use cases/pain points
Prioritise the use cases
Brainstorm some solution
Priritize the solutions + Trade offs
Metrics define success
Clarifying Qs:
Who are we? ==> MicroSoft team who designs physical product
Whiteboard so==> mething where people can write/draw to present/explain/workout
Office==> workplace. Not schools/univ
Smart ==> It understands most o"See full answer
"Great question! I think it's very important to teach kids about investment. Couple that with the trend of kids becoming tech savvy at a younger age, there's a big opportunity to design a useful product.
I'd like to start by breaking down the customer segment of "kids." I will assume that kids who will use this product come from more affluent backgrounds and their parents have investment accounts. We certainly could target kids from a lower socioeconomic background, but I think the barriers for"
Rika S. - "Great question! I think it's very important to teach kids about investment. Couple that with the trend of kids becoming tech savvy at a younger age, there's a big opportunity to design a useful product.
I'd like to start by breaking down the customer segment of "kids." I will assume that kids who will use this product come from more affluent backgrounds and their parents have investment accounts. We certainly could target kids from a lower socioeconomic background, but I think the barriers for"See full answer
"Understand business requirements, High level design, Identify dependent teams, bring in resources, prepare JIRA stories, backlog refinement, sprint planning"
Lalitha B. - "Understand business requirements, High level design, Identify dependent teams, bring in resources, prepare JIRA stories, backlog refinement, sprint planning"See full answer
"Opportunity cost, cost of improving the feature, and its's further benefits.
Overall business objective, Business stage. [Let's say we haven't acquired much of the customers, so thinking about improving the service won't be a good idea. We should try to scale when it is required.]"
Anonymous Muskox - "Opportunity cost, cost of improving the feature, and its's further benefits.
Overall business objective, Business stage. [Let's say we haven't acquired much of the customers, so thinking about improving the service won't be a good idea. We should try to scale when it is required.]"See full answer
"Hinge is a company that fosters community which I'm passionate about. I'm also excited to work on such an impactful mission to contribute to the safety of its users."
Rosmary F. - "Hinge is a company that fosters community which I'm passionate about. I'm also excited to work on such an impactful mission to contribute to the safety of its users."See full answer
"At Evernote and Wise, I've created a personalized approach for working more efficiently I've taught to coworkers with either our own proprietary software and off the shelf software. With Evernote, I did this by creating a hyper personalized templates for responding to customer concerns. With Wise, it's been a reworking of their traditional way of approaching Due Diligence and use of resources"
Jeff M. - "At Evernote and Wise, I've created a personalized approach for working more efficiently I've taught to coworkers with either our own proprietary software and off the shelf software. With Evernote, I did this by creating a hyper personalized templates for responding to customer concerns. With Wise, it's been a reworking of their traditional way of approaching Due Diligence and use of resources"See full answer
"You should identify this type of interview question as an Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new market. This is similar to a growth problem, with a few additional components. This is the formula you should use when tackling these types of interview questions:
Ask clarifying questions
Perform user analysis
Market risk analysis
State goals
Perform channel analysis
Prioritize growth channels
Strategy
Summarize
Without further"
Exponent - "You should identify this type of interview question as an Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new market. This is similar to a growth problem, with a few additional components. This is the formula you should use when tackling these types of interview questions:
Ask clarifying questions
Perform user analysis
Market risk analysis
State goals
Perform channel analysis
Prioritize growth channels
Strategy
Summarize
Without further"See full answer
"From my understanding there are many music apps focused on providing various services such as streaming, learning musical instruments, and collaboration among musicians. However,, there seems to be a gap in the area of emerging musicians getting discovered by producers or talent scouts.
Considering this gap, we could design an app, “ StageLite ”, which allows budding musicians to upload clips of their performances. These can then be evaluated and rated by a community of users who can upvote good"
Guna shekhar reddy B. - "From my understanding there are many music apps focused on providing various services such as streaming, learning musical instruments, and collaboration among musicians. However,, there seems to be a gap in the area of emerging musicians getting discovered by producers or talent scouts.
Considering this gap, we could design an app, “ StageLite ”, which allows budding musicians to upload clips of their performances. These can then be evaluated and rated by a community of users who can upvote good"See full answer
"Clarification about the Google Web Answers, its goal, and vision for the next 4-5 years.
Talk about the different user personas and the actions which they should take to achieve that vision.
Finally replicating these actions and corresponding actions into metrics.
Evaluate the different action if we there are any negative recursion about these metrics"
Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification about the Google Web Answers, its goal, and vision for the next 4-5 years.
Talk about the different user personas and the actions which they should take to achieve that vision.
Finally replicating these actions and corresponding actions into metrics.
Evaluate the different action if we there are any negative recursion about these metrics"See full answer
"This problem tests your ability to make sense of strategic business decisions. Don't feel pressured to start speaking immediately — you should feel free to take a few moments of silence to come up with some sound arguments. This makes your answer sound more measured and thought through. For this question, there are a few lines of reasoning you can go with.
Data
> LinkedIn was, and still is, the largest professional social network on the web. Since almost every high-powered executive and senio"
Exponent - "This problem tests your ability to make sense of strategic business decisions. Don't feel pressured to start speaking immediately — you should feel free to take a few moments of silence to come up with some sound arguments. This makes your answer sound more measured and thought through. For this question, there are a few lines of reasoning you can go with.
Data
> LinkedIn was, and still is, the largest professional social network on the web. Since almost every high-powered executive and senio"See full answer
"We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions:
Ask Clarifying Questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Identify current solutions
Brainstorm new solutions
Evaluate solutions
Measure success
Summarize
We'll go through each of these step by step.
Ask Clarifying Questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"
Exponent - "We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions:
Ask Clarifying Questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Identify current solutions
Brainstorm new solutions
Evaluate solutions
Measure success
Summarize
We'll go through each of these step by step.
Ask Clarifying Questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"See full answer