"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
"Goal:
To design a product that helps people keep track of their belongings and prevent loss.
Identifying users:
Individuals who frequently lose their belongings
Parents who want to keep track of their children's belongings
Tourists who want to secure their belongings while travelling
Selecting the right user:Given Google's expertise in technology, we will focus on designing a product for individuals who frequently lose their belongings.
Defining features and prioritizing:
Item tracki"
Anonymous Panda - "Goal:
To design a product that helps people keep track of their belongings and prevent loss.
Identifying users:
Individuals who frequently lose their belongings
Parents who want to keep track of their children's belongings
Tourists who want to secure their belongings while travelling
Selecting the right user:Given Google's expertise in technology, we will focus on designing a product for individuals who frequently lose their belongings.
Defining features and prioritizing:
Item tracki"See full answer
"You should be able to identify this as a Measure Success question. These kinds of questions are used to test your analytical skills, as well as your ability to track project progress post-launch.
Recall the strategy for tackling them methodically and thoroughly:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature / product
Behavior Mapping / UX Flow Mapping
Provide criteria to prioritize metrics
Prioritize metrics
Summarize
Let's begin!
Ask cl"
Exponent - "You should be able to identify this as a Measure Success question. These kinds of questions are used to test your analytical skills, as well as your ability to track project progress post-launch.
Recall the strategy for tackling them methodically and thoroughly:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature / product
Behavior Mapping / UX Flow Mapping
Provide criteria to prioritize metrics
Prioritize metrics
Summarize
Let's begin!
Ask cl"See full answer
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"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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