Interview Questions

Shraddha D. - "I like chatgpt for the following users Getting industry references are easy and time saving Getting recommendations is very easy Responses are accurate I use chatgpt to get feedback on content and identify gaps in my documentation or thought process I use chatgpt as a search engine and to get conscise situation based information. Chatgpt offers varierty of other tools in the explore version where similar users can create different content PRD template Chatgpt users 1."See full answer

Harshit J. - "In my organization, I was given a initiative to improve the time spent by users on web application so that we can improve the quality of engagement on the website. Overview of a business model: We are a research organization that delivers where users (B2B clients) consume research content in form of research reports. Clients has specifically subscription for a year and if clients engage continuously and they spend more time on research they will retain. Success metrics: Improve time spe"See full answer

P D. - "My Least Favorite Product: Amazon Kindle I have both: amazon kindle 8th generation (with backlight) and without backlight for many years now and also part of kindle unlimited program. And would be having more than 200-300 books on it already ranging across various topics What i don't like about kindle is that, its operating system has not evolved since many years. It's as difficult to operate as it was when it was launched. Infact now i don't prefer to browse the books on kindle, instead buy t"See full answer

Clayton P. - "The interviewer hinted that a two-tower recommender system might be a suitable approach, using user history to embed users and pages separately and train on view or interaction data. Instead, I proposed a different approach that I felt was more aligned with how knowledge is structured in Confluence: I designed a system using a graph database to model the relationships between Confluence pages. Each page is a node, and edges represent content-based references. For example, when one article"See full answer

Bala G. - "WITH ActiveUsersYesterday AS ( SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM user_activity WHERE activity_date = CAST(GETDATE() - 1 AS DATE) ), VideoCallUsersYesterday AS ( SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM video_calls WHERE call_date = CAST(GETDATE() - 1 AS DATE) ) SELECT (CAST(COUNT(DISTINCT v.userid) AS FLOAT) / NULLIF(COUNT(DISTINCT a.userid), 0)) * 100 AS percentagevideocall_users FROM ActiveUsersYesterday a LEFT JOIN VideoCallUsersYesterday v ON a.userid = v.userid;"See full answer

Hans - "Described a scenario where I joined an established project as an EM Typical medium sized team - 6 devs, 2 testers, PO, PM (part time) Scrum master (very hands off) The product was well established and already being used by circa 30000 single country based users for the companies own products (personal banking capabilities) We were due to go live with a BIG change about 2 months after I joined - this change meant a user could manage multiple personal banking accounts from the 1 interface. We w"See full answer

Warrenbuff - "#include #include #include using namespace std; vector diff(const vector& A, const vector& B) { unordered_set elements; vector result; for (const auto& element : A) { elements.insert(element); } for (const auto& element : B) { if (elements.find(element) == elements.end()) { result.push_back(element); } else { elements.erase(element); } } for"See full answer

Adib M. - "Notes from the Video. 1-1s are two way feedback. Important tool to discuss things that are not possible in group setting feedback to employee by manager feedback to manager by employee Feedback to employee can vary by the type of performer the employee is (a) high performer (b) meets expectations (c) under performing Dos and Don't Avoid project discussion as they can be obtained else where. Focus on feedback to employee. Unless there is a critical project item to be d"See full answer

Gadi R. - "So first, I have some clarifying questions, what is Facebook lite? If I understand correctly this is a version of the Facebook application for Android, with the same functionality but lighter in terms of size. It is aimed to be used in emerging markets where the bandwidth is limited What are the tradeoffs for the size of the app? I guess that some visual elements are stripped down from the app and reduced its size Is this application exist or I am launching it The timeframe of the product?"See full answer

Amy M. - "Clarifying questions: Do we want to focus on front end or backend? Front end Do we want to focus on any particular platform? For ex: Site, mobile, apps Interviewer: Desktop Is there anything tools on gmail that you'd like me to focus on? For ex: Meet, Hangouts, Notes Interviewer: Just the main product Are there any specific product buckets that you'd like me to go through? For ex: Sign up flows, login flows, security, product experience, sign out flow, recommend"See full answer

Bk - "Clarification: By Improvement we could delve into either improving Monetization, User Engagement, Experience or Retention. Project Goal: In particular letz focus on improving User Engagement/Experience which may also pave way into monetizing - cuz the way I see it is to put out multiple configurations /packages in the market, and allow users to choose and pay for the services. Its as simple as hiring a full time assistant vs part time. U pay for the service rendered. **Product Vision"See full answer

Vishnu G. - "1. Understand the "Why" (Deep Dive) - Before jumping to solutions, as a PM needs to precisely understand why users are unhappy. NPS gives us a score, but not the reasons. (0 -4 weeks) Analyze Feedback: Go beyond the score. What are Detractors (0-6) saying? What do Promoters (9-10) love? Qualitative Research:(VOC- voice of the customer) Conduct user interviews, analyze support tickets, and observe product usage. Pinpoint specific pain points (e.g., slow p"See full answer

Bradley E. - "Here's a simpler solution: select u.username , count(p.postid) as countposts from posts as p join users as u on p.userid = u.userid where p.likes >= 100 group by 1 order by 2 desc, 1 asc limit 3 `"See full answer

Gabe M. - "My stab at this (feedback welcome): Total distance for last car 500 meters: Assuming mostly standard cars, average car length + gap = 5 meters. Acceleration time total 505 seconds: first car reacts slowest, accelerate in 10 seconds. Every other car needs 5 seconds (can see ahead). Takes 90 seconds to cover 500m: to cover 500m that means 90 seconds (20kph = 10km in 30min = 1km in 3min = 500m in 1.5m) A bit under 10 minutes = 90s + 505s. Probably a bit less as last car"See full answer

Jacob C. - "Clarifying Qns: Did the watch time went down and comments went up for the same videos or are we saying total watch time and total comments on Youtube? (Total) I am assuming we are not including Youtube Live videos because those are typically live chat 1000’s of comments for a single video. (Correct) Do we know if these two could be independent problems not correlated with each other (No) Here is my approach to diagnose the root cause: Will look at some general trends first Intern"See full answer

Harshit G. - "Great question. My favourite product is YouTube Music. Let's see on what its strategy should be for next year. Clarifying questions No clarifying questions on this as I will be working with my favourite products. I will have few assumptions which I will state out before we proceed. Assumptions Assuming that we need to come up with strategy for YouTube Music app - not considering YouTube as a whole as part of this. I am considering overall audio streaming as the space to come up with the s"See full answer

Devendra B. - "Narrow scope of mission: As a Product Manager for Google Search, my primary mission would be to enhance the search experience for users, ensuring they find the most relevant information quickly and efficiently. This involves continually improving the quality of search results, enhancing the user interface, and exploring innovative features to meet evolving user needs. Customer segments: Google Search caters to a diverse range of users, including students, professionals, researchers, and"See full answer

Ashish G. - "Rate Limiter is to limit the number of request from a particular IP Address. Rate limiter will block the IP address to reduce the load on server. It should be highly available and handle concurrent requests. Blocked IP addresses should be kept in a pool which is present in shared cache. We need to keep threshold value after it reaches threshold value it should start blocking IP address. All these ip address to be kept in No SQL DB. Batch will run that will clear the cache and delete all the bloc"See full answer