Interview Questions

Anonymous Halibut - "The product lens I view the mousetrap through is a product which has a decision maker (someone who wants to catch a mouse) and an end user (yes, yes, the mouse to be trapped). I believe that the mousetrap is superior when it shows a better speed of catching mice. So given that there are mice to catch, it has a better 'conversion' rate of mice which took interest in the mousetrap / mice who got caught - this is a decision maker, e.g. a homeowner, perspective For a mouse, a trap is better when it"See full answer

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Anonymous Muskox - "Opportunity cost, cost of improving the feature, and its's further benefits. Overall business objective, Business stage. [Let's say we haven't acquired much of the customers, so thinking about improving the service won't be a good idea. We should try to scale when it is required.]"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Things on which Site performance depends Page Speed: The time it takes to load the webpage. It comprises the metrics like Server response time [Amount of time when a web client makes a request and a server responds to the request], Transfer time [Time it takes to download a webpage], and render time [Duration of time it takes to render the HTML page in browser]. DNS lookup speed: Every website name is mapped with the corresponding IP Address. So the browser lookup up the IP for t"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Okay so the objective is to describe a product which I think is poorly designed despite of what market sentiments are around this and how the product is performing currently. Okay understood, so the way I would like to go about it is first I will state what are the factors which I look in a product to tell it is a good product. Then will see how a particular product doesn’t follow this and that's why I called it a poorly designed product. For me a product is great if it is having these qualities"See full answer

Raymond W. - "Clarifications/assumptions - we're only interested in opening and closing hours, not serving times e.g. breakfast or lunch time format etc will be local only interested in regular hours not special holiday hours Potential users/data providers (ranked by order of authority) Businesses/Advertisers Consumers Google Goal Coverage Prioritising the most popular restaurants, or those who are willing to invest in advertising Accurate, but conservative - better be wrong to"See full answer

Parth P. - "Establish more servers on regional bases or locally and move network traffic to these servers instead of keeping on one server."See full answer

Surbhi G. - "Ensure immediate safety: The first priority is to secure the vehicle and its occupants by stopping the engine, activating hazard lights, and unlocking doors. Assess the situation: The car evaluates the extent of damage, determines its location, and checks on the status of passengers. Call for help: Based on the assessment, the car calls emergency services if necessary and notifies the manufacturer. Collect and store accident data: This is crucial for later analysis and potential legal pu"See full answer

Carlos L. - "There are many companies I’m excited about, but none captures my heart and imagination more than Lego. I have great memories of playing with Lego. I remember the thrill and happiness after completing a set and the excitement to show it to my family, relatives and friends. From a product standpoint, Lego offers a myriad of opportunities for growth in today’s context in which technology is ubiquitous. **Lego has faced several challenges over the years from expanding their user base, tradi"See full answer

Suhasan C. - "i'm going to Structure my answer like this: make sure we both are on the same page by asking Qs Users and their use cases/pain points Prioritise the use cases Brainstorm some solution Priritize the solutions + Trade offs Metrics define success Clarifying Qs: Who are we? ==> MicroSoft team who designs physical product Whiteboard so==> mething where people can write/draw to present/explain/workout Office==> workplace. Not schools/univ Smart ==> It understands most o"See full answer

Aditya S. - "I told a story about how our team was focussed on moving a key metric i.e. NPS and to do that we build 3 top requested user feature. Post release the detractors % didn't move even though the detractors request for features shipped went down. Then I connect with users and did some analysis post which we realised that we need to pivot our focus from shipping features to enabling complete workflows for our users i.e. shipping all those feature which are used together in a feature as then only users"See full answer

Soumya S. - "In 2019, I was given a very important problem to solve. In a team of 3 we had to build a mobility assist device. The customer segment we would go for was something we could decide. The project was very close to me as I had lost someone I loved because of cancer and I saw how reduced mobility was a huge pain point in not being able to do physical activities. My team could only think of elderly people as the main target market. As the Head of Product what I did was: 1) I helped them dive even d"See full answer