Interview Questions

Coco H. - "These works often aren't comparable, so that I'd use a balanced portfolio of 20%-30% engineering needs and 70%-80% user needs to satisfy both sides. However, this is only a starting point, if engineering requests more than this baseline then I would use ROI to prioritize."See full answer

Varun - "Clarify question and state assumptions: Streetview from my understanding is compiled by a streetview car going out and taking multiple photos and then Google stitches this together to give us streetview. I'm only going to look at the streetview outdoor experience, I know for e.g Google also has full views of some businesses, malls, museums etc so for the purposes of this I'm not going to calculate this. For the purposes of this is it OK if we say how much storage required to store streetview"See full answer

Sneha D. - "Design a university voting app"See full answer

Exponent - "It's always good to start with identifying what type of problem you're tackling. The problem we need to tackle is essentially a variation on a Favorite Product Question. We know there's a formula for this type of question, so now our job is to tactically execute on the formula. Let's begin with the Favorite Product Question formula: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? **How did competitors solve it in the"See full answer

Zaeem B. - "Hi Chris, this is John from CISCO. How have you been? This is with respect to our earlier communication regarding your order which was supposed to be completed by end Sep 24. Can you recall that conversation? Unfortunately, I am compelled to inform you that the shipment pertaining to your order is now delayed and the reason for that is severe climatic conditions in Chaina caused plant shut down there for several days. Hence we are expecting atleast a month of delay and we now expect to serve you"See full answer

Ian R. - "You might build a product like this a few ways. I think you'd definitely want a temperature sensor device (maybe like a TMP422, or maybe there's a different one that is standard for wearables) that was worn by the individual. As far as tracking social distance, my answer here is more dependent on the state of the art of robust (wearable) distance measurement. Maybe there's something available better than ultrasonic sensors, maybe there's some kind of electromagnetism based solution that isn't in"See full answer

Chelsea F. - "Questions: Clarify: High school = grades 9-12? So roughly ages 15-18 (4 years)? Are we talking about all high-school aged kids, or kids who actually attend HS? Do we count home schoolers? Drop outs? Assumptions: Let's assume we're estimating the number of children in the U.S. who are enrolled in/attend HS Assuming a uniform distribution of the population across ages Approach: U.S. Population = 300m Average lifespan = 80 years 4 years represented by HS age = 5% of the populati"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

Ishan M. - "Ask Clarifying Questions : A Podcast app is an app where artists/creators can upload their voice content and users are able to consume it. Is my understanding correct ? Yes Are we building this specifically for ios or android or web ? Consider ios and Android for now. Are we building the podcast app for a particular region like India ? Consider it a global launch What is the timeline that we are looking at? 6 months approximately Is it going to be an independent app or are we loo"See full answer

Jason C. - "The VR/AR industry is poised to explode and a wearable tech has steadily entered the mainstream. As a CEO of a healthtech startup, I would build a product that serves both industries - the 'middleware' between the plethora of smart watches / fitness trackers and the increasing number of VR/AR workout applications. This product would make it easy for apps to record key health metrics for their users without integrating with the countless wearable tech brands on the market."See full answer

Vishal S. - "Product Understanding - Push notifications are pop up notifications received on the device (phone, tablet etc.) sent by various Meta apps whenever a new post has been made or a new message is received Clarifying Questions - Is is specific to one device? Is it specific to one product? Is it specific to one region? Is it specific to one OS? Is this as a result of changes to algorithm/UI? Existing or a new feature? Assumptions - KPI calculation will only be for users who h"See full answer

Khushboo S. - "I would like to appreciate the company for giving an opportunity to visually impaired colleague and also making appropriate arrangements for enabling them to deliver their responsibilities smoothly. When I become aware of a teammate who is blind, I would start with the following steps - Understanding the degree of disability they have and doing my own research on how can one interact with such colleagues and facilitate smooth coordination with them I would approach them and ask as to how c"See full answer

Anonymous Bobcat - "Use a mapping to store number characters to possible meaning, iterate through the numeronym matching all digits with their representation"See full answer

Soraya S. - "I started by saying I like to understand what problems are they trying to solve. Often customers are asking for the features without knowing the problem"See full answer

Avi P. - "Product management deals with new product development, enhancing existing products, monitoring the performance, planning, forecasting, monetization, pricing, product launch, and marketing of a product. Personally, I would like to improve many aspects of Product management. Try to understand the Product we are developing as much as possible. Brainstorm and think about long term goals and vision for product we are responsible for. Hypothesize the Product vision and value of the product for"See full answer