Analytical Interview Questions

Brook - "too much discussing on p-value…. and theoritical things…. country are independant…."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

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

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

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

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

Piya B. - "You are planning to start a grocery store. How many manual checkout and automated checkout aisles would you have? Clarify: Is this in an urban or a rural city ? For instance is this for NY, where population is 8m Densely populated? Not a franchise of walmart.or. A big brand Which means no restrictions? Approach This will definitely depend on my budget but also the target segment . For instance, for an older population, self checkout may not be very popular. Hence, I will be making some sweepi"See full answer

IamaPM - "Number of visits to the site had increased, so total reservations infact went up, but conversion was down due to more users visiting, due to a promotion offered by the company or may be due to more ad entry points, social media, friend recommendations etc."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

RestlessMonk - "Below data was given in a an excel. Data of 6 weeks, at a weekly level of COVID samples collected and tested Age Group, Population size, # tested, # positive, gender My approach: Tried to understand the trend of positivity rate of each group across weeks and cumulative level There is no variation across weeks, and each cohort exhibited similar pattern in all the weeks. So looked at cumulative data of 6 weeks. No clear goal/objective set by the interviewer for vaccine distributio"See full answer

Cody M. - "Q1: You're the new head of the Google Hardware division. What is the next big product we're going to build and why? (Pretend you're on stage to unveil this to us.) Q2: How does this fit into the Google ecosystem? Q3: Estimate how many units you will sell in the first year in the US. (Q4: Also asked about pricing.) Q1: You're the new head of the Google Hardware division. What is the next big product we're going to build and why? Clarifying Questions: Clarifying question: Hardware is a very broa"See full answer

Exponent - "You should be able to easily identify this as a Measure Success question. These kinds of questions are used to test your analytical skills, as well as your ability to track project progress post-launch. Recall the strategy for tackling them methodically and thoroughly: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature / product Behavior Mapping / UX Flow Mapping Provide criteria to prioritize metrics Prioritize metrics Summarize Let's begin! "See full answer

Namrata L. - "Measure the success of SnapMap Clarifying question Snap is the feature which is visible on right swipe on snap chat showing map and location of your friends right? Do we have any specific goal in mind or we want to decide the overall success of the feature? Mission - Help users be connected with their friends and family and be updated about them. That is why the main medium of exchange is photos or videos in Snapchat which keeps people updated which actually putting things in words. Goal"See full answer

Sayee M. - "depending on project phase, apply various methodologies. scrum for app dev, waterfall for data migration, Testing (TDD for dev, FUT FiT for manual, UAT) , OCM has it own methodology ."See full answer

Grishma W. - "The three most important goals as a PM for Insta stories: Usage, Visibility & Reach"See full answer

Fred K. - "success can be defined as the achievement of a desired goal. "See full answer

slouchingtowardssv - "Clarify the problem / make assumptions: What are we defining as misleading? For this problem, any video that contains information countering accepted scientific/research-driven results What is meant by fix? Does that entail removing said videos? For this problem, I want to see if we can minimize the amount of videos pulled from YouTube Intro to the product: YouTube is a video-sharing platform that was acquired by Google in 2006 YouTube's original mission statement:"See full answer

Anhul C. - "I would take the following approach: Define what acquisition of a merchant means - It could be a few of these actions - 1. Merchant provides their email/phone number to shopify, 2. They create a store 3. they sign up for a subscription Second we need to establish the method we are using to acquire new merchants Assumption - it is paid advertising on IG and FB given that's one of the ways of acquiring audience on these platforms and is easy to track. Other approach could be social"See full answer