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Asked at Redfin • 5 years ago
How do you measure the success of the Hot Home feature in Redfin?
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How would you efficiently sum up a massive number of integers?
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at WhatsApp • 5 years ago
Estimate the median time it takes to deliver a message on WhatsApp.
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Estimation
Asked at LexisNexis • 5 years ago
Tell me about a time when you had to share an unfavorable project update with your C-suite.
Behavioral
Cross-Functional
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"This was during a Production VM Migration and the the DB crashed.We had to rollback the migration and after a 22 hour migration window present to the customer. At that point, I did not have answers to the WHY very clearly but had to present to the customer. I walked them through the situation and what had happened when the customer responded that they knew what happened but would like to know the why if we are asking for another migration window. I had to walk out of the meeting but on the hind"
Indupriya S. - "This was during a Production VM Migration and the the DB crashed.We had to rollback the migration and after a 22 hour migration window present to the customer. At that point, I did not have answers to the WHY very clearly but had to present to the customer. I walked them through the situation and what had happened when the customer responded that they knew what happened but would like to know the why if we are asking for another migration window. I had to walk out of the meeting but on the hind"See full answer
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Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Given two strings, A and B, how do you count the appearances of characters from B in A?
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You're the key decision maker at Google Pay, India. Imagine demonetization has been announced again for the Rs. 100 note. What actions would you take immediately, in the short term, and in the long...
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Asked at Waymo • 5 years ago
What is a website you frequently use? How would you improve it?
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Asked at Meta • 5 years ago
What could Facebook improve?
Behavioral
Project Management
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Behavioral
Project Management
Explain the Value Chain for a specific customer type of a product you worked on.
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Product Strategy
Asked at PlayStation • 4 years ago
You are a PM at Amazon deciding on entering the smartphone market. How would you proceed to make a decision before the senior management meeting?
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"questions cannot be mentioned due to NDA but be passionate about your role with PlayStation."
Praniti S. - "questions cannot be mentioned due to NDA but be passionate about your role with PlayStation."See full answer
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Asked at Amazon • 4 years ago
Why did Amazon start with books first?
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Product Strategy
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"This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question. Let's go over one possible solution: > Sure, there are three reasons why Amazon decided to start with books first. Creating niche > The first and most obvious reason is that Amazon wanted to create a niche market for their products at first. By creating a niche in the book space, Amazo"
Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question. Let's go over one possible solution: > Sure, there are three reasons why Amazon decided to start with books first. Creating niche > The first and most obvious reason is that Amazon wanted to create a niche market for their products at first. By creating a niche in the book space, Amazo"See full answer
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Product Strategy
Asked at Weight Watchers • 5 years ago
Would you prioritize acquisition efforts or retention features in subscription offerings?
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Asked at Apple • 5 years ago
How would you estimate the cost of developing new features for Apple Maps?
Estimation
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Estimation
How open are you to adapting to changes?
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Behavioral
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Behavioral
Asked at Robinhood • 5 years ago
What product do you like and use often? What are its key features?
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Asked at WeRize • 4 years ago
How would you grow WeRize's agent network from 5,000 to 50,000?
Product Manager
Product Strategy
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"It was an entire case study"
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Product Strategy
Asked at Nvidia • a year ago
How does Nvidia employ machine learning?
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Concept
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Machine Learning Engineer
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Asked at Goldman Sachs • a year ago
Implement a queue using stacks.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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"standard answer for this."
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Asked at LinkedIn, Oracle, TikTok • a year ago
Serialize and deserialize binary tree
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You are a product manager at Facebook working on the news feed. Design a system to determine if Facebook should display an ad or a friend recommendation after every 20 posts in the feed for the users.
Product Manager
Product Design
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"Objective: Primary Goal: Maximize long-term user engagement and retention while balancing monetization. Secondary Goal: Improve relevance of content, ensuring users enjoy their feed. Key Metrics User Engagement → Session Length Ad Revenue → conversion rates, revenue per user. Friend Network Growth → New connections, follow-up engagement with new friends. Retention Rate → How often users return after seeing either an ad or recommendation. Inputs & Signals for the Sy"
Arindam G. - "Objective: Primary Goal: Maximize long-term user engagement and retention while balancing monetization. Secondary Goal: Improve relevance of content, ensuring users enjoy their feed. Key Metrics User Engagement → Session Length Ad Revenue → conversion rates, revenue per user. Friend Network Growth → New connections, follow-up engagement with new friends. Retention Rate → How often users return after seeing either an ad or recommendation. Inputs & Signals for the Sy"See full answer
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Product Design