"This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical improvement. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature
**Apply a UX flow to drive analysis of what to measure"
Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical improvement. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature
**Apply a UX flow to drive analysis of what to measure"See full answer
"Same Skills, Different Focus
Product management
It focuses on developing and managing a specific product or product line. Product managers are responsible for defining the product strategy, developing the product roadmap, working with cross-functional teams to execute that roadmap, and ensuring the product meets the target market's needs and delivers business results.
Platform product management is a subset of product management that focuses on developing and managing ecosystems around"
KittyKat - "Same Skills, Different Focus
Product management
It focuses on developing and managing a specific product or product line. Product managers are responsible for defining the product strategy, developing the product roadmap, working with cross-functional teams to execute that roadmap, and ensuring the product meets the target market's needs and delivers business results.
Platform product management is a subset of product management that focuses on developing and managing ecosystems around"See full answer
"Question: How would you improve airport layover?
Clarifying Questions
What’s my role? Product Manager at a specific company? - Product Manager at the company that builds the airport
Digital Product or Physical Product? - Make my own assumption
Specific Airport? Country? Airline? - Airport in the US
Has both international and domestic
Why?
Airport layovers are becoming more common as international travel picks up post COVID
Increasing # of travellers
Layovers as a"
Siddhant S. - "Question: How would you improve airport layover?
Clarifying Questions
What’s my role? Product Manager at a specific company? - Product Manager at the company that builds the airport
Digital Product or Physical Product? - Make my own assumption
Specific Airport? Country? Airline? - Airport in the US
Has both international and domestic
Why?
Airport layovers are becoming more common as international travel picks up post COVID
Increasing # of travellers
Layovers as a"See full answer
"This is a Technical question. It tests your ability to understand high level technical concepts. Even though your job won't have any coding involved, you'll still need to understand these concepts. Being able to cover all these topics with clarity communicates confidence in your interviewer.
Unfortunately, there's no formula for technical questions, but some general tips are:
Use analogies when you can
Break your solution into clear, bite-size steps
Don't be afraid to use examples to b"
Exponent - "This is a Technical question. It tests your ability to understand high level technical concepts. Even though your job won't have any coding involved, you'll still need to understand these concepts. Being able to cover all these topics with clarity communicates confidence in your interviewer.
Unfortunately, there's no formula for technical questions, but some general tips are:
Use analogies when you can
Break your solution into clear, bite-size steps
Don't be afraid to use examples to b"See full answer
"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
"Mentioned that business category will not be back to previous COVID levels as a result of a systematic shift in the way business is now conducted via zoon calls.
Exposed poor customer service and online booking experience as a focus of "things to fix" to improve bookings
Suggested to shift (upgrade) the leisure customer segment into the luxury travel experience which was previously the choice of business class.
Prioritized fixing customer service digital experience as it is the central spi"
Esteban G. - "Mentioned that business category will not be back to previous COVID levels as a result of a systematic shift in the way business is now conducted via zoon calls.
Exposed poor customer service and online booking experience as a focus of "things to fix" to improve bookings
Suggested to shift (upgrade) the leisure customer segment into the luxury travel experience which was previously the choice of business class.
Prioritized fixing customer service digital experience as it is the central spi"See full answer
"Clarifying:
How many national resources? For example is this a country with a lot of natural resources or very few we want to preserve?
How are the other countries? Is there a lot of conflict around the creation of your country? (We will assume everything is perfect and we have unlimited financial resources)
Goals:
The two main goals of the product as I can see are preservation and enjoyment. Allowing people to enjoy our natural resources and preserving our natural resources.
User seg"
K D. - "Clarifying:
How many national resources? For example is this a country with a lot of natural resources or very few we want to preserve?
How are the other countries? Is there a lot of conflict around the creation of your country? (We will assume everything is perfect and we have unlimited financial resources)
Goals:
The two main goals of the product as I can see are preservation and enjoyment. Allowing people to enjoy our natural resources and preserving our natural resources.
User seg"See full answer
"This is another Fermi problem — an estimation or approximation problem with limited information and back-of-the-envelope calculations. There's no right answer: interviewers want to understand how you think and how well you can explain your reasoning, rather than what you already know.
Recall the formula for Fermi problems:
Ask clarifying questions
Catalog what you know
Make equation(s)
Think about edge cases to add to equation
**Breakdown components of your"
Exponent - "This is another Fermi problem — an estimation or approximation problem with limited information and back-of-the-envelope calculations. There's no right answer: interviewers want to understand how you think and how well you can explain your reasoning, rather than what you already know.
Recall the formula for Fermi problems:
Ask clarifying questions
Catalog what you know
Make equation(s)
Think about edge cases to add to equation
**Breakdown components of your"See full answer
"This is another Fermi problem — an estimation or approximation problem with limited information and back-of-the-envelope calculations. There's no right answer: interviewers want to understand how you think and how well you can explain your reasoning, rather than what you already know.
Recall the formula for Fermi problems:
Ask clarifying questions
Catalog what you know
Make equation(s)
Think about edge cases to add to equation
**Breakdown components of your"
Exponent - "This is another Fermi problem — an estimation or approximation problem with limited information and back-of-the-envelope calculations. There's no right answer: interviewers want to understand how you think and how well you can explain your reasoning, rather than what you already know.
Recall the formula for Fermi problems:
Ask clarifying questions
Catalog what you know
Make equation(s)
Think about edge cases to add to equation
**Breakdown components of your"See full answer
"I. Understanding Customer Needs & Requirements
II. Developing a Project Timeline
III. Defining the Problem Statement
IV. Identifying Product Features, Benefits & Requirements
V. Defining Project Objectives & Success Criteria
VI. Identifying Stakeholders Associated with the Project
VII. Determining Resources Needed to Complete the Project & Potential Risks"
Shivam S. - "I. Understanding Customer Needs & Requirements
II. Developing a Project Timeline
III. Defining the Problem Statement
IV. Identifying Product Features, Benefits & Requirements
V. Defining Project Objectives & Success Criteria
VI. Identifying Stakeholders Associated with the Project
VII. Determining Resources Needed to Complete the Project & Potential Risks"See full answer
"Design a concert ticketing service
Clarifying questions
Concerting ticket service as in a service which will take care of booking the concert and checking them at the entrance. That's it right?
When we say concert, what scale are we talking about? Will we include one-room stand up shows as well or just the big concerts? Mostly on big concerts. Can expand later.
Who are we? Are we a third party app or we deal with managing artists? Third party
Why are we doing this? Solve the gaps and in"
Namrata L. - "Design a concert ticketing service
Clarifying questions
Concerting ticket service as in a service which will take care of booking the concert and checking them at the entrance. That's it right?
When we say concert, what scale are we talking about? Will we include one-room stand up shows as well or just the big concerts? Mostly on big concerts. Can expand later.
Who are we? Are we a third party app or we deal with managing artists? Third party
Why are we doing this? Solve the gaps and in"See full answer
"Looked at use-cases - what would be biggest value props be. Looked at VIP people moving to save the cost of private airplane, security personnel and for everyday people it could be used for emergencies when people had to be moved quickly and safely. Looked at industrial use cases also for security such as moving precious stones like diamonds or high amount of cash where there would be high security, armoured trucks and logistics cost. Decided to narrow down to industrial use and went deeper int"
Nanda S. - "Looked at use-cases - what would be biggest value props be. Looked at VIP people moving to save the cost of private airplane, security personnel and for everyday people it could be used for emergencies when people had to be moved quickly and safely. Looked at industrial use cases also for security such as moving precious stones like diamonds or high amount of cash where there would be high security, armoured trucks and logistics cost. Decided to narrow down to industrial use and went deeper int"See full answer