Interview Questions

Ananya M. - "Assumption: question is about people in the US, and we define frequent bar visitor as someone who visits a bar twice a week. we are defining bars as places that people go for alcoholic beverage , not for the snacks , non alcoholic beverage or sports TV population of use 330M , 80m per age group 0-20 (eliminate because drinking age is 21 and above) 60-80 (eliminate because they prefer drinks at home or sit down restaurants or are very health conscious to go drinking) 20-30 : 40m 80%"See full answer

Praveen V. - "House buy is time-consuming and complex. (too many steps involved, from selecting a house, to agent, loan, closing, moving, knowing the place and people to settling down). Lets leverage power of fb and socialness to simplify house buying. we will create product for that users for home buying buyer ( for sake of simplicity - assume employed family with kids. local buyer) seller agent user flow for buying: Market research: understand the market, research area (friends, family ta"See full answer

Apurv M. - "Started with the clarifying questions. Then discussed the following with the panel: Goal Users Use Cases Features Priority Metrics to measure the success"See full answer

Takashi M. - "Designing a Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) involves creating an algorithm that generates a sequence of numbers that appear random while being deterministic, meaning that the same sequence can be reproduced given the same initial conditions. Here's a basic outline of how you could design a PRNG: Define the seed: The PRNG algorithm requires a seed value to initialize the generator. The seed can be any value, such as a number provided by the user or obtained from system data like the curr"See full answer

Medha A. - "DAU and MAU: The number of active users daily and monthly to gauge the content recommended on the home page. Bounce Rate: The percentage of users who navigate away from the site after viewing only the home page. Number of Signups: The number of users who signup after seeing the content on the homepage leading to lower CAC. "See full answer

Guru M. - "I have softened recruited people through LinkedIn. People from LinkedIn are more than happy to share their feedback on new products and features and to my surprise, I also saved a lot of company money on recruiting through services and offered Amazon vouchers to participants instead."See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "Clarifying questions : 1. What is the product Hardware/software specific ? 2. Any particular analytics done or should it be covered as a part of the solution ? 3. Any resource constraints ? 4. Any timeline in particular ? In order to internationalize a product, the following steps could be done: Identify the market/regions : Based on, say, Google analytics, find the regions which has the most clicks / attention for our product Going wide vs Going deep : Is it a single region that we are"See full answer

Exponent - "We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions: Ask Clarifying Questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Identify current solutions Brainstorm new solutions Evaluate solutions Measure success Summarize We'll go through each of these step by step. Ask Clarifying Questions The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"See full answer

Rosmary F. - "Hinge is a company that fosters community which I'm passionate about. I'm also excited to work on such an impactful mission to contribute to the safety of its users."See full answer

Debajyoti B. - "Museums are multi-revenue organizations. They dont have much or any profits in the process but thats becuase they dont want to either. All the money pretty much goes to operational costs required to be a well maintained place of exhibit. Lets consider the sources they currently "make" the money from- governments(national and/or state) private donors and trustees heritage organizations with their lottery fundings self channels like admission/entry fees, tickets for exhibitions, gift s"See full answer

Avi P. - "Product management deals with new product development, enhancing existing products, monitoring the performance, planning, forecasting, monetization, pricing, product launch, and marketing of a product. Personally, I would like to improve many aspects of Product management. Try to understand the Product we are developing as much as possible. Brainstorm and think about long term goals and vision for product we are responsible for. Hypothesize the Product vision and value of the product for"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "Since there is ample amount of data, there are various options to use them : Track travellers : Using traffic data coupled with user's GPS, in consent with the user, find the user's exact spot, this can be valuable in case of emergencies or tracking a school bus. Better ticketing : I understand that the notion is to NOT build anything with navigation, however if we have all data on the traffic, data analytics can predict if particular routes are used most, say if three connection routes a"See full answer

Anonymous Sturgeon - "Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Demo, Retrospective, Scrum of Scrum, Burn-down Chart, Tasks, User Stories, Velocity, Capacity, Team-size, Story Estimation..."See full answer