Interview Questions

Bg - "Questions: Can the toothbrush be a smart toothbrush, different from typical toothbrushes? Ans: Yes Children's age group? Ans: Pick your choice Cost? Ans: Not a concern Country? Ans: Ignore Personas: Parents typically help kids in brushing up to 5 years. Let us assume 5-10year olds as our focus. That is a decent 5%+ of global population. Pain Points: Brushing teeth for kids is a pain. They simply do not like it sometimes. Dental checkup is always a hassle. Some ki"See full answer

Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer

Ursula Z. - "Customer happiness Execution velocity Engineering engagement Capacity utilization"See full answer

Ushita S. - "Video has audio disruption starting at ~7th minute, did not understand what law he was talking about. Can someone please clarify?"See full answer

Saket S. - "Project Schedule is a living document which is prepared based on inputs from the entire team including product, engineering, finance, sales, marketing, legal etc. It is owned by Project/Program Manager but it reflects progress of the whole team. Inputs required for the development of schedule includes project charter, list of stakeholders, project scope, WBS, freeze calendar, vendor SOWs etc. I will use the following approach for schedule development: Copy Milestone level plan from Project"See full answer

Anonymous Dingo - "Project plan --> Define the project scope, timeline, resources, risks and stakeholders. Define the project scope and objectives Identify the business problems the project aims to solve. Align on goals, deliverables and success criteria. Document in-scope and out-of-scope items. Identify Stakeholders Develop the work breakdown structure Break the project into manageable tasks and milestones. Define dependencies. Decide the project management met"See full answer

Product V. - "Thanks for the question - What is your definition of the challenges - There can be multiple gaps and opportunities - Is there any specific opportunity you want me to look - Are free to assume My understanding of online purchase can be card not present or e-commerce - any specific you want to look Region - USA Goal - Feel free to assume - Trust Timeline - Say about a year Take a pause - Segment 1 - Online shoppers only Segment 2 - Strictly Brick and Mortar Segment 3 - S"See full answer

Anjali M. - "Several reasons why eCommerce will capture a trillion$ market in the next 10 years. User consumption habits have changed and the pandemic has only accelerated user behavior to order online from the convenience of buying from home. The supply chain is becoming better with partnerships and digital products are making shipping and deliveries much more convenient. Many companies investing in automated shipping vehicles eg Drone deliveries and in near future we might see automated driving v"See full answer

Michelle D. - "I'd start by trying to understand the high level north star for Stripe Atlas with respect to Stripe's mission of increasing the GDP of the internet. Example north star: Increase successfully created startups MoM, YoY I'd ask the interviewer to confirm my understanding on the following: Atlas allows entrepreneurs to easily launch their startups within a matter of only a few days from signup to receiving a tax ID. I would take this understanding and understand the input metrics towards the n"See full answer

Michelle D. - "I'd approach this first with a clarifying questions geared towards fraud prevention as these are going to be important to actually finding a root solution. I'd want to take cues from the interviewer in order to then identify potential hypotheses. Clarifying questions: How is fraud calculated? It's important to clarify the metric used to know that fraud is increasing. For example, is this a percent of all customers or transactions? Is the fraud that the merchant reported confirmed fraud"See full answer

Anonymous - "Understand the rationale around why another PM has an opposing opinion. At the end of the day it cannot be your word against mine and the opinion has to be data-based. Taking time to listen and asking clarification questions will promote a healthy partnership Once we get the perspective, Look for data points that can support my POV over the other PMs POV Lastly evaluate if we can land on a 51-49% approach where we find a middle ground to accommodate another pm's opinion/solution as"See full answer

Tiffanie K. - "licensing violations for mis-use, integrity of the data (how often is data refreshed), unstructured/garbage data, potential to download virus, mis-interpreted data, unreliability of system (i.e. 3rd party unplanned downtime),"See full answer

M N. - "Acqui: #unique impressions Activ: #clicks per first time user on products and carousel Engage: #clickthroughs, CTR of products by sort order(accuracy) ,carousel clicks, hovers, #clickthroughs that resulted in a purchase(relevance) retent: purchase frequency of reco clickers reve: revenue from recommended products broken by rank "See full answer

M N. - "Goal: Merchant growth. Any new market/category? downstream is revenue growth Users: small, medium, large (plus) Focusing on small - biggest, highest need rn Focus on small - entrepreneurs, offline to online, switchers picking entre Needs: onboarding catalog creation inventory mgmt order mgmt fulfillment Not enough tech resources for marketing&ads onboarding personalized onboarding based on product,size,location,experience, target segment s"See full answer

Anhul C. - "I would take the following approach: Define what acquisition of a merchant means - It could be a few of these actions - 1. Merchant provides their email/phone number to shopify, 2. They create a store 3. they sign up for a subscription Second we need to establish the method we are using to acquire new merchants Assumption - it is paid advertising on IG and FB given that's one of the ways of acquiring audience on these platforms and is easy to track. Other approach could be social"See full answer