Analytical Interview Questions

A F. - "Clarifying questions: 1M users- are these paying users? Daily active users? Once we know which users, we look at certain areas of initial investigation for patterns: Dashboards: Is this a flaw in the dashboard, or metrics pipelines not running? (Assuming not a problem) Geography: Are these users in a certain geolocation? (Ex: China bans the use of Netflix?) Users segments: Are these certain age group (kids, where parents might have restricted) or first-time users (they watched only one"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Netflix is an OTT service that gives users access to media like movies, documentaries, tv shows etc. Netflix has a subscriber based business model where the revenue is a function of # of users, lifetime of user, and fee charged per user per month. The home page of a user contains titles across various genres that Netflix thinks the user is most likely to watch. This like of titles is generated using an ML algorithm that is trained with user's past behaviour: their preferences, likes dislikes e"See full answer

Varun J. - "Feel free to download the full assignment (with screens) here: https://www.varunja.in/blog/assignment, cheers! Expected Outcome: Users: What do you know about the users of WhatsApp? What do they want? Features: What features will you build? Prioritization: What will be in your MVP and what will be in your 2.0 version? After you have decided on the MVP: Engineering: How hard is this to build? How long might it take? Are there ways to build a solution more"See full answer

Jack F. - "This is an estimation question - the goal is to show your thought process to the interviewer how you think through the question Let's make some assumptions - we are only focused on the TAM for Capital One's new potential card For the purpose of scoping this more narrowly let's assume we are solely focused on the U.S. Let's continue to scope in... 1). We know the United States population is somewhere in the ballpark of ~330MM (let's use round figures) 2). You should have some due dili"See full answer

Roy C. - "Note: This is my answer that I generated loosely while I was practicing this question. I didnt want to go down the product design framework as this is more of an execution question, so I came up with my own zombified framework to focus more on strategy + execution. Open to feedback on my answer - understand its not the most perfect! Question: How would I launch a digital library product as a Google PM Clarifications: Standalone product? : standalone Region specific: No (up to me) Goa"See full answer

Danyal R. - "Clarify the Issue: Begin by asking for more context about the specific issue they're referring to. This demonstrates your ability to gather information and make sure you have a clear understanding of the problem at hand. Assumption: biggest issue is decrease in north start metric: # of bookings Prioritize and Define Goals: Once you have a clear understanding of the issue, outline the goals you'd like to achieve in solving it. Increasing booking conversions, reducing friction in the bo"See full answer

Jack F. - "conduct direct user research through methods such as interviews, surveys, and focus groups to gather qualitative insights into user preferences, pain points, and behaviors. Additionally, I analyze quantitative data from sources like user analytics, feedback metrics, and market research to identify trends and patterns. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, including customers, internal teams, and subject matter experts, further enriches the requirements gathering process by incorporating diver"See full answer

M N. - "Ideas: Book a ride ahead of time on an app and provide timeslots. Have longer hours just for these rides so that people who care enough can go earlier. Distribute the demand by splitting a one-day ticket into 2 days so that traffic is distributed into 2 days. Fast pass add-on that lets you buy a fast pass for a specific ride instead of a combination. Have 2 of the top 3 popular rides and remove unpopular rides to use the space. Create a VR version of popular ride at the park so"See full answer

GSWarriors - "Clarification questions: Is it correct to assume that I am an insurance company provide insurance coverage for Waymo? yes Is it safe to assume that we are talking about self-driving cars (no drivers)? yes Several factors are taken into consideration when insurance companies provide insurance quotes (please not that all of these will apply to self-driving cars): M/F Age Years of driving experience Driving record Expected miles driven / year Cost of vehicle If car will be used for c"See full answer

Praniti S. - "Google VR mission - my understanding is to provide user an immersive experience where your room is the exploration ground/canvas and consumer has limitless possibilities What i know about VR : VR umbrella: Daydream and Cardboard VR devices: Headset/Cardboard/Desktop/Mobile VR product: Google Maps VR/ Carboard VR/Youtube VR/ TiltBrush/ Blocks VR feature: High quality video/ low latency video? Which product are we adding a new feature to? Tilt Brush which device are we implementing the new feat"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "Clarifying questions like what is the end goal that we are trying to achieve ? Is it revenue Improving user experience Improving current state - load times / find times / web page rendering / images ? External API consideration Introduction of a new feature in Google Maps Branding related ? Introducing a lite version of Google maps , say for emerging markets ? Based on the above, calculate : What are the positives of the algos ? "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

Shruti S. - "I do not think Facebook should remove the mandatory picture. As long as users get to choose who can see their pictures its a win win. eg: if i am sending out a request to anyone ( the picture is visible) - but when i am getting a request i can choose to be visible vs. invisible.. The pictures definitely should now be watermarked in a manner that AI cannot replicate it. giving a sense of security to users. Many might want to use this version for friends who are not on their friend list. For m"See full answer

Sneha S. - "Clarifying questions and assumptions: Personalised news feed is the culmination of curated posts, events, ads , videos, etc that is unique to each user. potentially this means that no 2 feeds are the same. I am assuming we are talking about the Facebook Blue app, since the term Newsfeed is generally associated with this app although the feed on Insta too is personalised. Thank you for this question. here is how i would structure my thoughts on arriving at success metrics for Personalised Ne"See full answer

pmpractice - "I would structure my answer in the following way: What's the situational context? Mission of Uber Making transportation easy by creating a platform for connecting drivers and riders Key market trends: In top tier cities there are players in the food delivery market and the size of the pie is growing fast What would feed into the decision-making? The new platform should be able to connect customers and restaurants. The key things needed to make this platform success"See full answer

Kushagra manish -. - " a. The above scenario leads us to believe that the project ClickUp suffers from customer engagement. It also leads us to believe that ClickUp has trouble on-boarding non-traditional customers, since most of the current users already have a taste of conventional PM tools like JIRA, Monday and Asana. This would lead us to believe that the customers have trouble on-boarding themselves, or find it much more difficult to use this app in the day-to-day. Hence what would help is to focus on the DAU/MA"See full answer