Interview Questions

Siddharth P. - "I believe these are the traits of a great PM. I see PM to be somone who is a great manager of customer problems and for that he/she has to be: Be an expert at the one domain and know the customer of the product in that domain and curate experiences for them better than the competition. Be persuasive - Get things done by convincing rather than commanding. Learn how great products are by being an engineer. Be a fearless leader by championing teams ideas all the way to the management la"See full answer

Nagasowjanya V. - "Click- through rate (CTR) should not be analyzed in isolation. Combining it with watch time, bounce rate, and retention metrics ensures a comprehensive understanding of user engagement and content effectiveness. Hypothetically, addressing the 10% CTR decline on Netflix Understand & Identify where the CTR drop is: Compare CTR trends over the past few weeks / months / years to identify if this a seasonal fluctuations or a major issue. Is the 10% drop a platform-wide issue or specific to a"See full answer

Amana A. - "I have nothing in my mind even upon thinking that Google Product is going to be disliked. The reason is that it is made with the effort to serve the customers. I like Gooogle because the Searching using the web browser, its timely response, especially for Research problems, we use the Google Scholar, Google collaborative, Google Documents, Google Drive, Google GMAIL inbox and the interface design, and many other things."See full answer

Rani Y. - "Prompt : design a farm product Clarifying question : what is the timeline and budget that i need to consider to build this ? 1 year , flexible budget . Is there any geography that i need to focus on ? no restriction What is farming ? Farming is a practice of raising crops and braising animals to produce food for human survival . This is one of the old / primitive ways to grow food using natural resources like land , water etc Why is it imp now ? Farming as I said is vary primitive way to grow fo"See full answer

Mark H. - "Clarification: workplace is a communication messaging tool for employee to send and receive messages. Why: meta's mission current landscape market trends meta's unique value strength & weakness Workplace Mission: build a communication tool for employees to better collaborate and engage with each other Goal: focus on engagement, not revenue Product ecosystem: Meta Company sourcing department IT department User: sender/receiver #of people log in #of people"See full answer

Sugrim S. - "after completing my project, I asked my manager for feedback on my performance. My aim was to identify areas for improvement, and learn more about new technologies which are in the"See full answer

Umang S. - "Context - I joined a large public-facing service as a PM midway through its development. Situation - Due to the SOPs of the company the team already had a metrics framework. That included your standard DAUs, Retention and Acquisition Metrics Concern - As SOP metrics were publicly accepted, the team did not internalise what success actually means to the product they are developing, as the actual value was not being encapsulated in the framework This was evident in the show and tells as the"See full answer

Carlos S. - "1) Clarifications Is this a Google initiative? Yes Timeline for development? MVP within 3 months. Hotel type? Focus on urban and mid-sized hotels Items to offer? Include ready-to-eat meals/snacks (e.g., microwaveable food, healthy snacks, beverages). Geographic scope? Launch in the US only. 2) Google Mission / Why "Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Google aims to enhance the guest experienc"See full answer

Rajesh V. - "As a PM i received a feedback from my program manager on my style of verbal communication. It is about me speaking faster when i wanted to get away with a topic that i wasn't confident (may be not backed up with data, or still in process of getting detailed insight of a problem etc.). Whereas when I'm confident I tend to speak slowly or more assertively that made people to follow easily. I welcomed that feedback so from then on when I'm not confident in a topic I became more assertive to let pe"See full answer

Amney M. - "it is really good explanation thanks it is really good explanation thanks"See full answer

Vihari K. - "At RTI while working on content-based recommender system on our ecommerce site, we received request from one of our distributor clients to make the system not only suggest products based on their purchasing history but also exclusively push higher priced items, regardless of their actual needs or demand patterns, it was challenging situation because it contradicted the primary purpose of our system, which was value based, patient centric product recommendations. To understand in this situation i"See full answer

Hashmina H. - "Clarifying Questions: Do we want to target a particular geography or location or should it be done globally? Assume global Is there any particular platform and device we are targeting (App/web) or should it be cross platforms? Cross platforms Can I think about it as Product led solutions or do you want to consider marketing alternatives as well? Let's start with Product led solutions & later if time permits, we can touch on the marketing side as well Are there any constra"See full answer

Anubhav S. - " At low level: I would use two stacks: one for forward history and other for backward history. i go to tryexponent.com => this url will be stored in backward history stack. i go to google => again this url will be stored in backward history stack. i press back => data from backward history will be popped and put in to forward history stack. I press forward => data from forward history stack will be popped and put in to backward history tab. Also, whenever i go to any url,"See full answer

Nayla D. - "Clarify Questions: Is this app in Facebook app? or we build a different app for this? - Yes, this is in FB app now. Will we have monetization in the first launch or launch it for free first? - Free first, but there is a potential monetization in the future. Context: we will launch Facebook Jobs in two weeks, indicating that this is a new product. I want to step back a bit, why this is important for Meta. Meta mission is to make it easier to build community and bring the world closer"See full answer

Ravindra R. - "First, I want to understand why Airbnb is considering expanding into the restaurant space. Is the goal more user engagement, or unlock new monetization paths, or make the travel journey more memorable by connecting people with food? Next, I want to define what success would look like for this expansion. That could mean high guest engagement or a boost in revenue. Third, I will look at things like the volume of Airbnb travelers to the region, how big the dining market is, who the local competitor"See full answer

Anuradha T. - "average time spent attending event, number of sign up for the event, attendees/signups"See full answer

David I. - "WITH filtered_posts AS ( SELECT p.user_id, p.issuccessfulpost FROM post p WHERE p.postdate >= '2023-11-01' AND p.postdate < '2023-12-01' ), post_summary AS ( SELECT pu.user_type, COUNT(*) AS post_attempt, SUM(CASE WHEN fp.issuccessfulpost = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS post_success FROM filtered_posts fp JOIN postuser pu ON fp.userid = pu.user_id GROUP BY pu.user_type ) SELECT user_type, post_success, post_attempt, CAST(postsuccess AS FLOAT) / postattempt AS postsuccessrate FROM po"See full answer