"In a recent implementation of a large core banking project where we were breaking away from monolithic architecture to microservice based one we faced a situation where customer wanted to have a single repository of user and role management.
Since Micro service based architecture talks about individual entities for multiple product suite it was mandatory to maintain individual user base.
Based on the customer feedback, we had to come up with an unique design of single user base and replicating"
Snehangsu B. - "In a recent implementation of a large core banking project where we were breaking away from monolithic architecture to microservice based one we faced a situation where customer wanted to have a single repository of user and role management.
Since Micro service based architecture talks about individual entities for multiple product suite it was mandatory to maintain individual user base.
Based on the customer feedback, we had to come up with an unique design of single user base and replicating"See full answer
"I assume here that the elderly person does not have much knowledge about technology and the internet.
I would like to structure my answer in this way:
Concepts of twitter I want the elderly to know.
Take an analogy to explain the concepts.
Connect the dots between the analogy back to the app.
Twitter concepts :
A common feed to look at the tweets created by the people in your network.
Concept of retweeting.
Chatting.
Comments/likes.
Analogy :
Imagine there is an office wi"
Samiksha D. - "I assume here that the elderly person does not have much knowledge about technology and the internet.
I would like to structure my answer in this way:
Concepts of twitter I want the elderly to know.
Take an analogy to explain the concepts.
Connect the dots between the analogy back to the app.
Twitter concepts :
A common feed to look at the tweets created by the people in your network.
Concept of retweeting.
Chatting.
Comments/likes.
Analogy :
Imagine there is an office wi"See full answer
"Assumptions
Instacart for Business is core Instacart with additional features and capabilities tailored to businesses.
Users
Potential user segments:
Office managers (Focus here)
Entrepreneurs/small business owners
Restauranteurs
Opportunities (pain points, needs, problems)
Many places don’t offer same-day shipping.
Inconvenient to physically go out and purchase these items from a store if urgent
Hard to predict an"
Dan H. - "Assumptions
Instacart for Business is core Instacart with additional features and capabilities tailored to businesses.
Users
Potential user segments:
Office managers (Focus here)
Entrepreneurs/small business owners
Restauranteurs
Opportunities (pain points, needs, problems)
Many places don’t offer same-day shipping.
Inconvenient to physically go out and purchase these items from a store if urgent
Hard to predict an"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions:
Do we want to target a particular geography or location or should it be done globally? Assume global
Is there any particular platform and device we are targeting (App/web) or should it be cross platforms? Cross platforms
Can I think about it as Product led solutions or do you want to consider marketing alternatives as well? Let's start with Product led solutions & later if time permits, we can touch on the marketing side as well
Are there any constra"
Hashmina H. - "Clarifying Questions:
Do we want to target a particular geography or location or should it be done globally? Assume global
Is there any particular platform and device we are targeting (App/web) or should it be cross platforms? Cross platforms
Can I think about it as Product led solutions or do you want to consider marketing alternatives as well? Let's start with Product led solutions & later if time permits, we can touch on the marketing side as well
Are there any constra"See full answer
"Let's split the experience in four parts:
Time between order is placed and order is waiting to be prepped by the shopper.
Time between order is prepped by the shopper and ready to be picked by the driver.
Time when it's out for delivery.
Post delivery experience.
Now lets think through what can do wrong? How do we define wrong?
A wrong would be anything where a customer has a negative experience. Let's dive into the when things could potentially go wrong.
**order is placed and"
Pree M. - "Let's split the experience in four parts:
Time between order is placed and order is waiting to be prepped by the shopper.
Time between order is prepped by the shopper and ready to be picked by the driver.
Time when it's out for delivery.
Post delivery experience.
Now lets think through what can do wrong? How do we define wrong?
A wrong would be anything where a customer has a negative experience. Let's dive into the when things could potentially go wrong.
**order is placed and"See full answer
"Understand gaps team by interviewing on 1:1, reading past performance reviews and talking to old managers/cross functional
Identify Goals and use the SMART framework to set those goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, relevant, time related)
Share with team and make sure they understand them. Clarify questions if needed.
Explain WHY these goals matter. Tie to company goals/mission/culture.
Put together an action plan TOGETHER- give often feedback: "pinches no punches"
Chantal C. - "Understand gaps team by interviewing on 1:1, reading past performance reviews and talking to old managers/cross functional
Identify Goals and use the SMART framework to set those goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, relevant, time related)
Share with team and make sure they understand them. Clarify questions if needed.
Explain WHY these goals matter. Tie to company goals/mission/culture.
Put together an action plan TOGETHER- give often feedback: "pinches no punches"See full answer
"I would ask what are the currently supported modes of transport. Assuming cars, luxury cars, transit. Bike and scooter is off limits.
Also assuming Lyft is available only in the US currently.
Then I would start off with the Goal.
Why does Lyft want to launch a new mode of transport.
Assuming possible reasons in order of priority:
1) To gain market share
2) To gain new users (riders/drivers)
3) Improve experience of users (riders/drivers)
Do we have restrictions on country that we can l"
Unicorn 2. - "I would ask what are the currently supported modes of transport. Assuming cars, luxury cars, transit. Bike and scooter is off limits.
Also assuming Lyft is available only in the US currently.
Then I would start off with the Goal.
Why does Lyft want to launch a new mode of transport.
Assuming possible reasons in order of priority:
1) To gain market share
2) To gain new users (riders/drivers)
3) Improve experience of users (riders/drivers)
Do we have restrictions on country that we can l"See full answer
"Potential ad creators:
Brands
Drivers
Travel services.
Goal: To create a revenue stream. Acquire new users? To potentially develop new products? For now, lets focus on generating revenue as the goal.
Potential ad products:
Ads from brands you can watch while you are riding. Most riders dont look at the app while riding but we can provide them incentives like 5% off next ride if they watch ads the whole ride and pay it via ad revenue.
Drivers can pay Lyft to be matched more w"
M N. - "Potential ad creators:
Brands
Drivers
Travel services.
Goal: To create a revenue stream. Acquire new users? To potentially develop new products? For now, lets focus on generating revenue as the goal.
Potential ad products:
Ads from brands you can watch while you are riding. Most riders dont look at the app while riding but we can provide them incentives like 5% off next ride if they watch ads the whole ride and pay it via ad revenue.
Drivers can pay Lyft to be matched more w"See full answer
"Lets start with assumptions
100m people go out to bars in US
Assuming COVID is behind us
Also assuming this is annually and not monthly or daily (though it might be better to ask this)
Step 1: Why should Google build something like this
Google Mission: Make information accessible and useful
Google's current state: Focus on improving current products (improve engagement and thus monetization) while also building things for future (growth)
Product Mission: Make going to bar a"
Date G. - "Lets start with assumptions
100m people go out to bars in US
Assuming COVID is behind us
Also assuming this is annually and not monthly or daily (though it might be better to ask this)
Step 1: Why should Google build something like this
Google Mission: Make information accessible and useful
Google's current state: Focus on improving current products (improve engagement and thus monetization) while also building things for future (growth)
Product Mission: Make going to bar a"See full answer
"Assumption:
question is about people in the US, and we define frequent bar visitor as someone who visits a bar twice a week.
we are defining bars as places that people go for alcoholic beverage , not for the snacks , non alcoholic beverage or sports TV
population of use 330M , 80m per age group
0-20 (eliminate because drinking age is 21 and above)
60-80 (eliminate because they prefer drinks at home or sit down restaurants or are very health conscious to go drinking)
20-30 : 40m
80%"
Ananya M. - "Assumption:
question is about people in the US, and we define frequent bar visitor as someone who visits a bar twice a week.
we are defining bars as places that people go for alcoholic beverage , not for the snacks , non alcoholic beverage or sports TV
population of use 330M , 80m per age group
0-20 (eliminate because drinking age is 21 and above)
60-80 (eliminate because they prefer drinks at home or sit down restaurants or are very health conscious to go drinking)
20-30 : 40m
80%"See full answer
"Assuming this is meant to be a standalone product. Its a standalone app.
Goal: Simplify the shopping experience in store for a user.
Success would be defined in terms of app usage as a proxy for user satisfaction.
I want to think about the a given user segment, their pain points, ways to improve their pain and a way to evaluate those solutions.
Broadly user personas associated with grocery shopping are - stores and customers.
For the purpose of this interview I want to focus on customer se"
P K. - "Assuming this is meant to be a standalone product. Its a standalone app.
Goal: Simplify the shopping experience in store for a user.
Success would be defined in terms of app usage as a proxy for user satisfaction.
I want to think about the a given user segment, their pain points, ways to improve their pain and a way to evaluate those solutions.
Broadly user personas associated with grocery shopping are - stores and customers.
For the purpose of this interview I want to focus on customer se"See full answer
"A very interesting question. Please find below my approach:
Understand VP's line of thought and goals trying to achieve
Understand the assumptions/ Validate the hypothesis
Impact on Brand, revenue, engineering cost, customers, and existing products
SWOT
Approve or Provide alternative
Question to the VP:
What is the objective? - higher engagement? easy to interact, peer-to-peer communication?
Why the need for a separate platform? - to increase the no.of interactions? to"
P K. - "A very interesting question. Please find below my approach:
Understand VP's line of thought and goals trying to achieve
Understand the assumptions/ Validate the hypothesis
Impact on Brand, revenue, engineering cost, customers, and existing products
SWOT
Approve or Provide alternative
Question to the VP:
What is the objective? - higher engagement? easy to interact, peer-to-peer communication?
Why the need for a separate platform? - to increase the no.of interactions? to"See full answer
"Clarifications
Only travellers to be considered? Or should we consider work staff, people who come to receive and see off people when they are traveling? → In essence who is considered to the count? → Assumption, only travellers. If not then you have to consider, staff (ATC, Security, Airlines ground staff, Customs, shop employees, airport staff etc.) making the estimate very difficult, But If I had to guess I would say 5% of total travellers across all the staffing categories.
Estimate"
S H. - "Clarifications
Only travellers to be considered? Or should we consider work staff, people who come to receive and see off people when they are traveling? → In essence who is considered to the count? → Assumption, only travellers. If not then you have to consider, staff (ATC, Security, Airlines ground staff, Customs, shop employees, airport staff etc.) making the estimate very difficult, But If I had to guess I would say 5% of total travellers across all the staffing categories.
Estimate"See full answer