Interview Questions

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  • +10

    "Disagreement --> persistent ---> more data insights ---> positive relationship ---> mentor/trust"

    Sam - "Disagreement --> persistent ---> more data insights ---> positive relationship ---> mentor/trust"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'Tell me about a time you had a problem and had to discover the real cause.'

    "Situation- I was leading a product through a complete overhaul to a new replacement product, and at the same time had to maintain the old product. Concern - In the old product, the team was usually stuck 40-50% of the time in bug fixing This could have hampered the velocity and GTM of the new product Action Localised the problem to one major component - Export and Import Function- had 90% contribution to the issues Worked with the engineering team to diagnose the issue, the issue was i"

    Umang S. - "Situation- I was leading a product through a complete overhaul to a new replacement product, and at the same time had to maintain the old product. Concern - In the old product, the team was usually stuck 40-50% of the time in bug fixing This could have hampered the velocity and GTM of the new product Action Localised the problem to one major component - Export and Import Function- had 90% contribution to the issues Worked with the engineering team to diagnose the issue, the issue was i"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'Design Amazon's Kindle payment system.'
    +4

    "Payment system requirement assumption: Need to be ACID Amount limitation - some validation for max input size can be done at client level/ API level. Need to store historic info - GDPR The information to be stored for database assumed can be structured so RDBMS like mysql or Postgres Notification requirement - if fail or success need to be text or email to user and or caller Scalable - Assumption that it deals with critical transaction so Availability and Scalability requirement i"

    Personal W. - "Payment system requirement assumption: Need to be ACID Amount limitation - some validation for max input size can be done at client level/ API level. Need to store historic info - GDPR The information to be stored for database assumed can be structured so RDBMS like mysql or Postgres Notification requirement - if fail or success need to be text or email to user and or caller Scalable - Assumption that it deals with critical transaction so Availability and Scalability requirement i"See full answer

    System Design
    Product Design
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • "Clarification Question: First I would like to clarify my understanding of AirBnB. AirBnB is an online marketplace that lets people rent out their properties or spare rooms to guests. Airbnb takes 3% commission from hosts and around 6 to 12% from guests. Now, I believe payment collection experience is related to the host so they can visualize everything around their payments. Reason for designing this experience - to provide a better collection experience for hosts Marke"

    D S. - "Clarification Question: First I would like to clarify my understanding of AirBnB. AirBnB is an online marketplace that lets people rent out their properties or spare rooms to guests. Airbnb takes 3% commission from hosts and around 6 to 12% from guests. Now, I believe payment collection experience is related to the host so they can visualize everything around their payments. Reason for designing this experience - to provide a better collection experience for hosts Marke"See full answer

    Product Design
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  • "Likely 2 from VM in one Project VPC to VPC in another project in AWS or GCP , Azure"

    Rashmi B. - "Likely 2 from VM in one Project VPC to VPC in another project in AWS or GCP , Azure"See full answer

    System Design
    Technical
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    +5

    "The opening of people spending a lot time on Facebook is way too long. Almost half time of the video. The analysis of Facebook business model should be very brief. People know Facebook business model. Maximize the ads display while balancing the user experience is the key. She can drive to this point much faster. Segmentation of user group feels irrelevant to the question. I would answer the question in a different way. Ads revenue is the single most revenue stream for Facebook. So we c"

    Zhi C. - "The opening of people spending a lot time on Facebook is way too long. Almost half time of the video. The analysis of Facebook business model should be very brief. People know Facebook business model. Maximize the ads display while balancing the user experience is the key. She can drive to this point much faster. Segmentation of user group feels irrelevant to the question. I would answer the question in a different way. Ads revenue is the single most revenue stream for Facebook. So we c"See full answer

    Product Design
    Estimation
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Video answer for 'How would you determine success for Instagram Reels?'
    +53

    "To answer this question I am going to first clarify the product offering and what ti does, talk about the goals for IG reels for Facebook, go through user actions and then come up with some key metrics to measure success of the product based on the goals. Product Overview IG reel allows creators to build short-form video with a bunch of different editing features and post that to their followers or to the broader IG network. It allows regular IG users to create their own content and build"

    stash - "To answer this question I am going to first clarify the product offering and what ti does, talk about the goals for IG reels for Facebook, go through user actions and then come up with some key metrics to measure success of the product based on the goals. Product Overview IG reel allows creators to build short-form video with a bunch of different editing features and post that to their followers or to the broader IG network. It allows regular IG users to create their own content and build"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • Disney logoAsked at Disney 

    "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "

    Exponent - "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "See full answer

    Execution
    Analytical
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "This type of question is a Technical problem. Although you will not need to actually code the feature, it's important to understand basic technical concepts. Being able to cover these concisely with clarity shows you're an effective communicator. Here, we'll go over the broad technical steps needed to implement a basic reactions feature on Facebook. Briefly, the steps required are the following: Migrate the database to support reactions Write API code to be able to react to a post, and"

    Exponent - "This type of question is a Technical problem. Although you will not need to actually code the feature, it's important to understand basic technical concepts. Being able to cover these concisely with clarity shows you're an effective communicator. Here, we'll go over the broad technical steps needed to implement a basic reactions feature on Facebook. Briefly, the steps required are the following: Migrate the database to support reactions Write API code to be able to react to a post, and"See full answer

    Technical
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Should Samsung enter the gaming console market?'
    +32

    "Which structure would you suggest for such a question?"

    Anonymous Bee - "Which structure would you suggest for such a question?"See full answer

    Product Strategy
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Design a great gas station.'
    +7

    "A gas station is a place to refuel our cars to a set amount, pay for it, and get out. What do we mean by great - do we want to revamp the experience of a gas station? Yes. Who are we? Let's say we are one of the big oil dealerships in the US. OK, so we are looking at building this in the US? Yes. Is this for a specific type of gas station - for trucks, normal cars, or other special vehicles? Assume it's for normal cars. We are a big oil dealership and we want to revamp our gas stations."

    Gokul S. - "A gas station is a place to refuel our cars to a set amount, pay for it, and get out. What do we mean by great - do we want to revamp the experience of a gas station? Yes. Who are we? Let's say we are one of the big oil dealerships in the US. OK, so we are looking at building this in the US? Yes. Is this for a specific type of gas station - for trucks, normal cars, or other special vehicles? Assume it's for normal cars. We are a big oil dealership and we want to revamp our gas stations."See full answer

    Product Design
  • Truecaller logoAsked at Truecaller 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve engagement for the Truecaller app?'

    "One of the better videos!"

    Alex S. - "One of the better videos!"See full answer

    Product Design
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • "Any answer after this video won't compare. Not an expert. With that caveat out of the way, here is my answer I'd break this work into different phases = Discovery Phase, Planning Phase, Execution Phase, Monitoring phase, Ongoing Discovery : How many Products does this enterprise have? Are we talking about internally developed Products that we sell in the market place? or also third party Products that our enterprise has purchased for internal use? Should we include Operating Systems, net"

    Adib M. - "Any answer after this video won't compare. Not an expert. With that caveat out of the way, here is my answer I'd break this work into different phases = Discovery Phase, Planning Phase, Execution Phase, Monitoring phase, Ongoing Discovery : How many Products does this enterprise have? Are we talking about internally developed Products that we sell in the market place? or also third party Products that our enterprise has purchased for internal use? Should we include Operating Systems, net"See full answer

    Program Sense
  • Cruise logoAsked at Cruise 
    Video answer for 'How do autonomous vehicles work?'

    "If this question was for a product manager; I would approach it as I don't really know how actually these vehicles work. I will try to simplify the concept and answer questions like why autonomous vehicles are exists and what is the purpose of them. Autonomous vehicle is a vehicle can do some actions on behalf on a human and as main reason is to increase the safety, so to come up into how they work, I should identify the main actions that human does and prioritize it based on what they may"

    Nouna J. - "If this question was for a product manager; I would approach it as I don't really know how actually these vehicles work. I will try to simplify the concept and answer questions like why autonomous vehicles are exists and what is the purpose of them. Autonomous vehicle is a vehicle can do some actions on behalf on a human and as main reason is to increase the safety, so to come up into how they work, I should identify the main actions that human does and prioritize it based on what they may"See full answer

    Technical
    Concept
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +60

    "I most want to communicate a few principals of conflict resolution that I believe were integral in this situation, which are mutual respect, a results orientation, an unwavering focus on the user. To that end, here’s how I’d like to structure this answer: First, I’ll tell you about the project we were working on, to provide some background for you. Second, I’ll describe the disagreement. Third, I’ll describe how we arrived at a solution, and finally, I’ll discuss how those 3 conflict resolut"

    Ross B. - "I most want to communicate a few principals of conflict resolution that I believe were integral in this situation, which are mutual respect, a results orientation, an unwavering focus on the user. To that end, here’s how I’d like to structure this answer: First, I’ll tell you about the project we were working on, to provide some background for you. Second, I’ll describe the disagreement. Third, I’ll describe how we arrived at a solution, and finally, I’ll discuss how those 3 conflict resolut"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +5 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Since success metrics is a very broad term, to dive deep into WCS - What constitutes success. What is the objective of the company/product, north star/mission of the organization or product? Dependent on the company, market, the industry they play in. As an example: Facebook's mission is now empowerment, bringing the people together and giving them the power to build communities. Every part of its product aligns in one way or other with this goal. Be it, its Web/Mobile platform, Instagram,"

    Pm P. - "Since success metrics is a very broad term, to dive deep into WCS - What constitutes success. What is the objective of the company/product, north star/mission of the organization or product? Dependent on the company, market, the industry they play in. As an example: Facebook's mission is now empowerment, bringing the people together and giving them the power to build communities. Every part of its product aligns in one way or other with this goal. Be it, its Web/Mobile platform, Instagram,"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Analytical
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    +8

    "This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them. I think my three greatest strengths are: Empathy Openness to feedback Drive And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are: Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"

    Adam M. - "This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them. I think my three greatest strengths are: Empathy Openness to feedback Drive And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are: Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • Match Group logoAsked at Match Group 

    "I will charge them based on subscription basis per user/per month with aggressive pricing."

    Prasanth R. - "I will charge them based on subscription basis per user/per month with aggressive pricing."See full answer

    Product Strategy
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