Execution Interview Questions

Sulaiman A. - "Are the revenues down for the entire market/industry? is it an external effect? Has the company made any major shifts in the last month? I'm wondering if this could be a lagging indicator of a change that happened a few weeks ago. Are the revenues down across all product lines, or is it being driven by a particular product? Was there any particular day or time in the last week, when revenues were lower than average? Did we face any outages? is there a competitor in the market? Did we stop advert"See full answer

Brad G. - "I would think about the following Inventory make up Localization for Quebec Device type distribution Price comparison algorithm is tuned correctly Dealer’s ability to merchandise their products The answer is thinking through all these potential issues with the car buyer funnel to identify why potential buyers in Canada are converting at a lower rate. "See full answer

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

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

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

Exponent - "This is a 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 As"See full answer

Vivek A. - "Clarifying question:"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

Abhishek s. D. - "I would get an personal understanding of the pain-points my customers, & business teams are facing. In my experience, spending more time, going deeper in the problem discovery helped me get a rough idea of the how important this problem is. If this is not resolved - what could be the consequences for our users & the business. Given this broad idea, I just simply evaluate them on value vs effort scale. The higher the score, higher the priority. Effort could be in T-shirt size or sto"See full answer

Anshul A. - "I would measure the success of the self-checkout system by the percentage of customers who complete the checkout process after initiating one."See full answer

Arnab S. - "didnt know what thumbtack is, apologies for that. looked it up, seems like their line of business is marketplace. their website is down though, bummer! starting with a cohort analysis then taking it from ther; internal reach out to the data team and find out the root cause Demand Side WoW definition? in my understanding if w1 revenue = $100,000, w2 = $96,000, w3 = $92000 and so on. But revenue is calculated as a sum of existing users and new users WoW. analyse duration when this d"See full answer