Interview Questions

M N. - "Driver retention is important to ensure growth since we need healthy retention of existing drivers while we acquire new drivers so that we meet growing demand. Should we look at a specific driver segment to improve retention? We might divide the drivers by their age on the platform: New drivers(less than 3 months since first ride), Medium age (3mos to 1 year), Long term(1+ years). Let's focus on the medium term since I assume them to be the biggest segment. Now lets try to list out possible pr"See full answer

Mark - "Clarifying questions: What's Airbnb goal in making this requirement? Are we talking about the listing for Airbnb's core business - lodging? Approach: Before we dive in, it would be beneficial for us to first discuss our base understanding of Airbnb's business, who are the user segments that this feature can impact, and some hypothesis on what Airbnb's goal should be Once we define the goal of this feature, we can go over our approach on how we will evaluate whether we should make"See full answer

P K. - "Clarifying/Assumptions: Assuming improvement refers to lift in engagement in this case. Youtube refers to the WWW and mobile platforms. Key User Segments: Creators Influencers/Celebrities Video bloggers Regular users Viewers Power watchers Casual watchers Churned watchers Selecting the Influencer segment from the above list since it is a smaller volume of users and will have a big impact on viewers. Also, it is easier to understand"See full answer

Sarabjeet S. - "Goal of YT search is to enable quick access to a video of interest to user. So success for YT search would mean access to videos that interest, and user actually clicks on one or more searched videos to watch them. It also means reduced time searching overall, with high relevance results shown for search string. Actions performed by users are: Goes to the YT site or Mobile app Clicks on the Search window to type Enters search string and presses enter Browses the list, scrolls"See full answer

Dewi A. - "Firs I am going to look over if the usability dropped are occurred across platform (if the tools can be accessed from multiple platform), if the dropped are only happened in one platform, then we need to fix supporting technology of the tools. If the dropped are happening across platform then I am going to check tracking metrics of the tools. Following are metrics that I am going to consider: Tools Usability - See if the tools are functioning well to accommodate user action; If it turns out"See full answer

Dawn H. - "discover what feature solves the biggest human pain point and has the lowest LOE for the highest ROI. Start there and then build a low-fi prototype to test that theory and gain user insights to drive any additional solutions discovery work, ensuring that you are building the right product at the right time, for the right audience."See full answer

Irma M. - "In this question, we don't want to jump the gun and say "yes, there should definitely be 2 different apps". Maybe there should be instead of jumping to building two apps, we must first ask a few questions and diagnose the problem, use case, and smallest amount of work we can do to get a return on data. I'd first look at the long term mission or value of Robinhood. Is it to make investing more accessible to novice investors or to focus on building up portfolios of veteran investors and recognize"See full answer

Devi K. - "Assuming this is a all-inclusive product management team only, I would structure the team as follows: Platform/Technical PM - 2 Front-End PM - 3 (mix of Senior and Assistant PM) Head of Product (People and Organisation behavious) and Principal Product Manager (in the weeds and strategy involved)"See full answer

Poojitha V. - "Test"See full answer

Anonymous Aardvark - "Recently, I had to make a decision that I could automate a part of a process now and help the operations team reducing 9 hours of manual work to 60 minutes for one client. The second option was to fully automate the end to end process that would take 4 weeks of development, but fully automate the process and that could be rolled out across the board. The process was to change the member's paperless preference to paper when a sent email gets bounced 3 times in a row and inform her with a paper"See full answer

Balaji G. - "My Answer. Please let me know your feedback. I have led many projects throughout my career. So, whenever I lead the project, I first try to clarify the goals and values delivered. For example, I was in charge of Data Analytics projects at my employment at a Startup. The team’s goal was launching the MVP. First, I discussed with the CEO to define the clear goal and scope for each of the projects. Next, I identified all the key stakeholders and received their inputs on the project's different a"See full answer

Vijendar K. - "I'd like to clarify the question here for better understanding. Are we targeting any location? Assuming WW Do we have any demographics of the users? Assuming overall users Did we see any drop recently in TV watching users metrics for which we want to improve the watch time on TVs? No, in general we want to improve this area. Are we looking to improve the overall Netflix watch time on TV, not to acquire new users? Correct. As Netflix is offering content of so many genres of con"See full answer