Analytical Interview Questions

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

Anjali M. - "Define Groups: Platform where users ( organizers and members) with shared interests can come together and express their thoughts and opinions. Meta's mission: To bring ppl closer together by giving them access to tools and technology. Groups Mission alignment: Gives Organizers and members to come closer together over shared interests and build community. Users : Organizers ( create a group-> invite people on the platform --> can accept or deny a member to the group --> Intera"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying questions: Clarify what Facebook Lite is Assumed answer: It’s a slimmed down version of mobile FB app optimized for slower connections and uses less data than the primary mobile FB app by not offering features like videos and high resolution photos. It is only available on Android and primarily built by FB to the developing world can have access to FB. What is meant by “opens are down”? Assumed answer: The total amount of opens of the app on Android devices"See full answer

Rishi P. - "Optimizing Booking.com to improve conversion rates involves a strategic and holistic approach that considers various aspects of the user experience, website functionality, and marketing. Here are several strategies that could be employed: \\User-Centric Design:\\ \\Mobile Optimization:\\ Ensure the website is fully optimized for mobile devices, given the increasing number of users booking on smartphones. \\Intuitive Navigation:\\ Streamline the booking process with a cl"See full answer

Exponent - "This type of question is a Technical problem. Although you will not need to actually code the feature, it's important to understand basic technical concepts. Being able to cover these concisely with clarity shows you're an effective communicator. Here, we'll go over the broad technical steps needed to implement a basic reactions feature on Facebook. Briefly, the steps required are the following: Migrate the database to support reactions Write API code to be able to react to a post, and"See full answer

Aniket D. - "Goal: Before we look at FB Newsfeed, let's align ourselves with the overall goal of FB, that is, to bring the world closer together. Feature Introduction/Clarification: FB Newsfeed is a core feature of the social networking platform that allows people to share updates, and catch up with what the world around them is talking about, group activities, events, etc. Actions: On Newsfeed, one can: share their updates, feelings, etc. catch up with updates from the people, groups, pa"See full answer

Kiran M. - "The primary objective of Instagram Stories is to share fleeting moments and engage with followers in a more casual way, through photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. Its also used to showcase all ongoing Instagram Live events. There are 4 user segments Story Viewers Story Creators (who posted the story) Live event creators Live event viewers No of stories posted per user per day -> How to nudge users to post more stories and tag their friends/location. No of stories view"See full answer

Henil S. - "Clarifying Questions Goal - What is the goal for launching a new recommendation algorithm? (Assume an increase in user engagement) User Persona Using a recommendation system to explore new artists/songs in the same genre Using a recommendation system to explore new genres of songs Using a recommendation system to explore to format of content(Podcasts, Comedy, Stories) Metrics to look at to analyze if we need a new algorithm or not. Metrics Number of songs listened to"See full answer

Anonymous Hawk - "A few clarifying questions: Algorithm that is specifically used to match individuals? Define better? More matches, higher likelihood of relationship? etc. Next I'd like to consider the product's goals, how users engage with the app, how we'd measure those engagements, and how they align with our goals. Considering Goals Facebook's mission is to give people the tools to build communities FB Dating's goal for the end user is to find a partner, but for Facebook it is really ab"See full answer

stash - "Clarification: Which region do we want to know about? —> Global Is Facebook lite included in this offering —> No. Only the Facebook app (mobile / web) Product Overview Facebook photo sharing allows users to upload photos and make them visible to their network. Doing so, users are able to share moments from their lives with friends and family. Goals User Goals Share memories with network View people’s reactions and respond View other people’s photos and respond to th"See full answer

Joohi M. - "Think about 3 types of users - 1) User who only uses Google photos and no other Google product. What is the value that Google gets out of such user? 2) User who uses all the google products including photos but does not spend a penny on google photos (think of storage fee, buying photo albums etc.). How do photos increase the value provided by that user in conjunction with other Google products? 3) Use who spends money on Google photos. The value provided by the first user is through their pho"See full answer

Pm E. - "Methodology: Clarify some of the terms in our question List high level causes based on the category and gather context information, rule out the ones that have low probability or out of scope Drill down the causes and establish a few hypotyhesis Investigate and test the hypothesis I have and try to fix the problem Clarify questions: Define FB logins: through 3rd party Apps, Assuming our data is accurate, double check with 3rd party Apps that our understanding is correct/ or cr"See full answer

Pulkit G. - "Top 3 segments for the Apple Watch: At core, Apple watch is a wearable companion to the iPhone that does 3 big things - fitness & other health metrics tracking, act as smart watch for push notifications on the go, and acts as a high-tech fashion accessory. Customer segments - a) Fitness and adventure enthusiasts + for everybody (for basic sleep and HR tracking) - the new Apple Watch Ultra is targeted specifically at the outdoorsy (and aspiring adventurists) + also all the Nike integration b) F"See full answer

Aekagra S. - "I'll approach this by asking questions and creating scenarios based on answers. If the answer to any questions points to a specific issue, I'll double down on that to understand the issue. This is more of a RCA question. First I'll quickly check Were there any recent updates released before we observed the drops? Assuming Yes, I'll check the updates released and check the test cases and testing results If the issue is identified, I will engage with the product leadership, update them and conne"See full answer

M N. - ""Good investor" depends on what our business objective is, identifying success metrics for it and then dividing customers into segments by these success metrics. Business objective: We want our customers to retain on the product longer, engage regularly so that we meet our revenue goals as a company. Do you agree? I'm assuming we want to define an "investor" and not a "trader" because their behaviors are very different. I'm defining investor as someone who buys securities and holds it anywhere"See full answer