Interview Questions

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

KTfortheLoss - "Me: First let's clarify the user journey of the Facebook dating app Interviewer: Me: Do we know how success is defined in this context? Interviewer: Please figure that out yourself Me: Ok let's first discuss the mission of Facebook and how Facebook dating app is part of that. Then lets brainstorm what the goals would be for Facebook Dating. That help us determine the user behavior and metrics we can create. Finally let's fi"See full answer

Mark - "Questions: Is "Facebook Search" referring to the overall search bar at the top where users can search across multiple facebook products (people, events, groups, marketplace, etc.) Interview (I): Assume it is for the overall search experience What's the current goal for Facebook as a company? How does Facebook search fit into the current company goal? I: Your call **What's the goal for this improvement for Facebook Search? Are we aiming to drive engagement overall?"See full answer

Himanshu V. - "Video engagement: time spent, frequency, recency Video completion rate Time spent on Facebook vs Time spent on watching FB videos Video recommendation: Switching from 1st to 2nd and so on "See full answer

Swaroop M. - "Formulate a draft format of idea, open to feedback, communicate your progress"See full answer

Ben L. - "First I want to look at how Facebook stories overlaps with Facebook’s mission. I can see pretty instantly that stories stays true to Facebook’s mission with bringing the world together and connecting friends and families. I want to make sure I understand the product journey. Facebook stories allows users to post videos and photos. While also being able to add filters, music, and stickers. Users are also able to comment on other stories and react to them. Does that sound correct? Interview: Ye"See full answer

Bill P. - "benefit to the project Probability of intended outcome Affect on resources needed to complete project"See full answer

Bg - "My use of Pinterest is somewhat limited. Pinterest is a social network that enables users to save and share ideas in a visual manner. So whether you are interested in fashion, health, lifestyle, decor, sports, you can learn about those in a visual manner. Am I correct? Of course, Pinterest provides recommendations for people to follow, makes it easy to save images as pins, categorize into various topics. The source of revenue is advertisements. That’s my understanding. Is there anything else I"See full answer

Anjaly J. - "Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet that provides technology for drone delivery of freight. Current pain points : Noise level when drones are flying Competitive landscape in terms of traffic management system Broadcast network IDs to identify the recipient - privacy concern Considering that privacy concern is a large issue by itself and traffic management system is something I assume Wing would have plans for the future, Idea would be work on the noise level as a recently joined PM. "See full answer

Amishr - "For a mature product, I would do the following - Review the list of backlog items Meet with stakeholders and business owners to verify the relevance (are they still valid? esp. for new feature request) Break down the backlog list by a. Product improvements b. New features c. Operational Resiliency Do a 70-30 split with New features+Product Imp =70%, Resiliency =30% Prioritize by impact/scale and effort (team's capacity) by quarter Revisit Quarterly For a new product - Start"See full answer

Mark - "Clarification Am I the PM for overall Xbox or certain part of the Xbox team? Interview (I): let's assume you own the overall Xbox product Are there particular user segments that the MSFT Gaming division is trying to focus on as their strategy? I: nothing in particular, why don't you tell me where we should focus? What are some challenges that Xbox have been facing? (ie revenue from xbox hardware purchase? xbox live subscription purchase? engagement?) I: nothing in pa"See full answer

Mark K. - "This problem could be solved in two ways(both using Kadane's algorithm): Simple iterating 1-D dp function maxSubarraySum(nums) { const n = nums.length; if ( n === 0) return 0; const dp = Array(n).fill(0); dp[0] = nums[0]; for (let i = 1; i < n; i++) { dp[i] = Math.max(nums[i], dp[i - 1] + nums[i]); } return Math.max(...dp); } "See full answer

Ashish C. - "def sort(self, nums): low, mid, high = 0, 0, len(nums) - 1 while(mid <= high): if nums[mid] == 0: nums[low], nums[mid] = nums[mid], nums[low] low += 1 mid += 1 elif nums[mid] == 1: mid += 1 else: nums[mid], nums[high] = nums[high], nums[mid] high -= 1"See full answer

Nitin P. - "public static void sortBinaryArray(int[] array) { int len = array.length; int[] res = new int[len]; int r=len-1; for (int value : array) { if(value==1){ res[r]= 1; r--; } } System.out.println(Arrays.toString(res)); } `"See full answer