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  • Twitter logoAsked at Twitter 
    Video answer for 'Design Twitter's API.'
    System Design
    Technical
  • +6

    "Great question, I’ll take a moment to organize my thoughts before answering - Sure I have a few clarification questions and some assumptions - Go ahead 5 years and infinite resources, I have no constraints in terms of making technology advancements - Yes, no constraint I’ll focus on improving the lives of people and changing the ways people use Google Translate and may expand the use to different products.. not just existing interface - Cool Let's take a step back and think why people nee"

    Vaibhav B. - "Great question, I’ll take a moment to organize my thoughts before answering - Sure I have a few clarification questions and some assumptions - Go ahead 5 years and infinite resources, I have no constraints in terms of making technology advancements - Yes, no constraint I’ll focus on improving the lives of people and changing the ways people use Google Translate and may expand the use to different products.. not just existing interface - Cool Let's take a step back and think why people nee"See full answer

    Product Design
  • "It would be good to talk about the impacts on costs as well"

    Mehdi K. - "It would be good to talk about the impacts on costs as well"See full answer

    Product Strategy
    System Design
  • Databricks logoAsked at Databricks 
    Video answer for 'What is your leadership style?'
    +7

    "My leadership style is flexible and adaptive, it varies depending on the team members and the needs of the company. My leadership goal is to empower the team and inspire and grow leaders. In order to achieve that, I combine transformational, democratic and coaching leadership styles. Usually when we are facing a new type of challenge, or at the early stage of a project, I like to adapt the transformational leadership which allows me to listen to all the suggestions from the team members and sta"

    onering2ruleall - "My leadership style is flexible and adaptive, it varies depending on the team members and the needs of the company. My leadership goal is to empower the team and inspire and grow leaders. In order to achieve that, I combine transformational, democratic and coaching leadership styles. Usually when we are facing a new type of challenge, or at the early stage of a project, I like to adapt the transformational leadership which allows me to listen to all the suggestions from the team members and sta"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
    +4 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +1

    "Clarifying Questions Who are we? Traditional elevator company or a new age tech startup Assumption: New age tech based elevator company Any constraints: Budget, etc. Assumption: No What kind of a skyscraper building: Assumption: Commercial. Includes office spaces as well as others Any particular goal with respect to building this elevator? Design best in class elevator providing the best user experience for passengers User needs - Users have the following needs when"

    Shasleen I. - "Clarifying Questions Who are we? Traditional elevator company or a new age tech startup Assumption: New age tech based elevator company Any constraints: Budget, etc. Assumption: No What kind of a skyscraper building: Assumption: Commercial. Includes office spaces as well as others Any particular goal with respect to building this elevator? Design best in class elevator providing the best user experience for passengers User needs - Users have the following needs when"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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  • +5

    "Clarifying questions: US-based? And All year including holidays? First, what is the goal? Grow user base of Prime? Add revenue? I'd imagine it's to grow Prime base, as it's sticky and I imagine the Lifetime Value is higher as people will shop more if they have Prime. Then, I would look at the users. What are they trying to do? They're purchasing gifts, and looking to gift wrap. Take a look at the number of gift purchases total with gift receipt and no gift wrap. Call this X. Break thi"

    Manish E. - "Clarifying questions: US-based? And All year including holidays? First, what is the goal? Grow user base of Prime? Add revenue? I'd imagine it's to grow Prime base, as it's sticky and I imagine the Lifetime Value is higher as people will shop more if they have Prime. Then, I would look at the users. What are they trying to do? They're purchasing gifts, and looking to gift wrap. Take a look at the number of gift purchases total with gift receipt and no gift wrap. Call this X. Break thi"See full answer

    Product Strategy
    Analytical
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "A load balancer, web application servers and a large database. Database is the core of the application containing the songs and tags related to each song. Application server will provide the search interface to find songs, play them and search them in specific categories or channels."

    Soraya B. - "A load balancer, web application servers and a large database. Database is the core of the application containing the songs and tags related to each song. Application server will provide the search interface to find songs, play them and search them in specific categories or channels."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Technical
  • eBay logoAsked at eBay 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve your favorite product?'

    "When a question like this is asked what is really being asked is "how do you think about the elements that make up a product and how does each part add value?". I generally try to answer it with a feature that has to do with user interaction. Good answers to this question could include "I would add a button to edit a post, and make it more visible and accessible rather than buried in a menu". Your rationale might be "**because it encourages users to post without fear that they will make"

    Sydney S. - "When a question like this is asked what is really being asked is "how do you think about the elements that make up a product and how does each part add value?". I generally try to answer it with a feature that has to do with user interaction. Good answers to this question could include "I would add a button to edit a post, and make it more visible and accessible rather than buried in a menu". Your rationale might be "**because it encourages users to post without fear that they will make"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • +3

    "Trying to decide on if they should include a step to upload a profile picture in the onboarding flow or not? Why does facebook have a profile picture? What value does it add? User value - Connections: having a picture on your profile, help drive friending and follows. Because users can put a face with the name. And they cna also recongize people they may not immediately know from a name (or a common name) and want to friend them. Business value - Integrity: maki"

    Marie E. - "Trying to decide on if they should include a step to upload a profile picture in the onboarding flow or not? Why does facebook have a profile picture? What value does it add? User value - Connections: having a picture on your profile, help drive friending and follows. Because users can put a face with the name. And they cna also recongize people they may not immediately know from a name (or a common name) and want to friend them. Business value - Integrity: maki"See full answer

    Execution
    Analytical
  • +2

    "Part 1 - Initial diagnostic questions Question: To start, I want to confirm that this is actually an issue. Have we changed any logging related to DAU in past couple of months? Answer: No Question: Ok, now I'm wondering if this could be a seasonal issue. In the past 6 months, have we seen a similar trend where DAU is down by 10%? Answer: No Question: Ok, to zoom out for a second, let's think about any macro-level factors that may have impacted DAU. Is there any negative public sent"

    Anonymous Amphibian - "Part 1 - Initial diagnostic questions Question: To start, I want to confirm that this is actually an issue. Have we changed any logging related to DAU in past couple of months? Answer: No Question: Ok, now I'm wondering if this could be a seasonal issue. In the past 6 months, have we seen a similar trend where DAU is down by 10%? Answer: No Question: Ok, to zoom out for a second, let's think about any macro-level factors that may have impacted DAU. Is there any negative public sent"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Execution
    +2 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    +9

    "Clarify: Any specific types of groups (families or business)? Type of travel (air, train)? Global or domestic? Assumptions: Users have interest in travel. Content within Meta apps can help FB, whatsapp, Instagram. Have access to user data with travel preferences and budget. Resources to interact with travel businesses and institutions. Constraints: Users typically think of meta apps in the early discovery phase of travel, typically use travel company apps to complete experience e.g. booking,"

    Patrick W. - "Clarify: Any specific types of groups (families or business)? Type of travel (air, train)? Global or domestic? Assumptions: Users have interest in travel. Content within Meta apps can help FB, whatsapp, Instagram. Have access to user data with travel preferences and budget. Resources to interact with travel businesses and institutions. Constraints: Users typically think of meta apps in the early discovery phase of travel, typically use travel company apps to complete experience e.g. booking,"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • +8

    "Assumptions Assume that the functionality of Meta Pay is the ability to send and receive payments to other Meta account holders. Payment infrastructure connects to bank accounts Assume users can maintain a balance in Meta Pay Assume life cycle of the product is post launch adoption phase Clarifying questions Can I send or receive payments to a meta user from a different platform? e.g., fb to IG > assume the answers is “yes” Where is it available? > Assume answer is “US” "

    Philip C. - "Assumptions Assume that the functionality of Meta Pay is the ability to send and receive payments to other Meta account holders. Payment infrastructure connects to bank accounts Assume users can maintain a balance in Meta Pay Assume life cycle of the product is post launch adoption phase Clarifying questions Can I send or receive payments to a meta user from a different platform? e.g., fb to IG > assume the answers is “yes” Where is it available? > Assume answer is “US” "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • +1

    "Before I jump in, will this product be part of the FB ecosystem? If it's up to me, although I think wine has a great social element and is shared when people are connecting...I would hesitate to create a product that promotes alcohol consumption on FB. So I would choose to have it live outside of FB. With that, let me start by making sure I understand the product correctly, talk about some metrics we can target. Then we can think through who our users are and outline some of their needs. Final"

    Anonymous Sparrow - "Before I jump in, will this product be part of the FB ecosystem? If it's up to me, although I think wine has a great social element and is shared when people are connecting...I would hesitate to create a product that promotes alcohol consumption on FB. So I would choose to have it live outside of FB. With that, let me start by making sure I understand the product correctly, talk about some metrics we can target. Then we can think through who our users are and outline some of their needs. Final"See full answer

    Product Design
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "I told a story about how our team was focussed on moving a key metric i.e. NPS and to do that we build 3 top requested user feature. Post release the detractors % didn't move even though the detractors request for features shipped went down. Then I connect with users and did some analysis post which we realised that we need to pivot our focus from shipping features to enabling complete workflows for our users i.e. shipping all those feature which are used together in a feature as then only users"

    Aditya S. - "I told a story about how our team was focussed on moving a key metric i.e. NPS and to do that we build 3 top requested user feature. Post release the detractors % didn't move even though the detractors request for features shipped went down. Then I connect with users and did some analysis post which we realised that we need to pivot our focus from shipping features to enabling complete workflows for our users i.e. shipping all those feature which are used together in a feature as then only users"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • +3

    "My Favorite Product is Grammarly unlike Microsoft spell checker, it helps correct the mistakes as I compose my sentences. It follows rules, patterns, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP) to improve users’ writing skills and improve their confidence in writing skills. I would evaluate this product by the following design principles. Usefulness Understandability Innovative It’s honest I can expand this criterion and explain how I evaluate prod"

    Dev S. - "My Favorite Product is Grammarly unlike Microsoft spell checker, it helps correct the mistakes as I compose my sentences. It follows rules, patterns, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP) to improve users’ writing skills and improve their confidence in writing skills. I would evaluate this product by the following design principles. Usefulness Understandability Innovative It’s honest I can expand this criterion and explain how I evaluate prod"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • +30

    "SELECT customer_id, order_date, orderid AS secondearliestorderid FROM ( SELECT order_id, customer_id, order_date, ROWNUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY customerid, orderdate ORDER BY orderid ASC) AS rank FROM orders ) WHERE rank = 2 ORDER BY orderdate, customerid `"

    Tiffany A. - "SELECT customer_id, order_date, orderid AS secondearliestorderid FROM ( SELECT order_id, customer_id, order_date, ROWNUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY customerid, orderdate ORDER BY orderid ASC) AS rank FROM orders ) WHERE rank = 2 ORDER BY orderdate, customerid `"See full answer

    Coding
    SQL
  • DoorDash logoAsked at DoorDash 

    "Shopping funnel and engagement: Global search brings up food items from multiple restaurants but results don't directly lead users to the item in the restaurant. Retention and repeat: Users are not able to earn and burn store-specific rewards. Similarly stores/restaurants can't build direct relationship w/ the customers and provide custom offers Multi-store cart and checkout. Currently DD supports cart and checkout from a single restaurant at a time. Many times customers want to order f"

    Kinjal S. - "Shopping funnel and engagement: Global search brings up food items from multiple restaurants but results don't directly lead users to the item in the restaurant. Retention and repeat: Users are not able to earn and burn store-specific rewards. Similarly stores/restaurants can't build direct relationship w/ the customers and provide custom offers Multi-store cart and checkout. Currently DD supports cart and checkout from a single restaurant at a time. Many times customers want to order f"See full answer

    Product Design
    Behavioral
  • "I believe human emotions can't be judged by number and hence I have always made mistakes while judging the outcome of a reaction by data."

    Mc L. - "I believe human emotions can't be judged by number and hence I have always made mistakes while judging the outcome of a reaction by data."See full answer

    Behavioral
  • Product Design
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