"Clarify
"What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice.
"Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product.
Rephrase Question
With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"
Tim W. - "Clarify
"What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice.
"Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product.
Rephrase Question
With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions:
Platforms - Is it a web-based, mobile-based, or both? = Picking both
For payment are we partnering with other providers like paypal, stripe? = assuming yes
Partnering with shipping companies for shipment ?
Is it online delivery? or just pick up within local markets?
Expected number of daily users?
Users:
Sellers: People who sell fruits or vegetables or both
Buyers: People who buy fruits and vegetables
Note:
For product design, I would just focu"
Anjan - "Clarifying Questions:
Platforms - Is it a web-based, mobile-based, or both? = Picking both
For payment are we partnering with other providers like paypal, stripe? = assuming yes
Partnering with shipping companies for shipment ?
Is it online delivery? or just pick up within local markets?
Expected number of daily users?
Users:
Sellers: People who sell fruits or vegetables or both
Buyers: People who buy fruits and vegetables
Note:
For product design, I would just focu"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience.
2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general
3) Market - US
4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B.
Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience.
User-segments: People who use i"
Ashvini B. - "Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience.
2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general
3) Market - US
4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B.
Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience.
User-segments: People who use i"See full answer
"Clarifying questions:
Does the home have to be fully paid off to consider the millenial a homeowner? No, they just need to have the title or put a loan on it
We are only considering the continental US? Yes, not territories
Just four wall stationary homes, not empty land, nor RV/trailer homes? Exactly
Basic Facts:
70 million millennials
300 million US population
Millennials have low rates of homeownership
130 million houses in the US
Millennials span == 18 to 36
Breakdown:
"
Anonymous Parakeet - "Clarifying questions:
Does the home have to be fully paid off to consider the millenial a homeowner? No, they just need to have the title or put a loan on it
We are only considering the continental US? Yes, not territories
Just four wall stationary homes, not empty land, nor RV/trailer homes? Exactly
Basic Facts:
70 million millennials
300 million US population
Millennials have low rates of homeownership
130 million houses in the US
Millennials span == 18 to 36
Breakdown:
"See full answer
"US population = 330M , 80M across 4 generations
population that is physically able to travel, can afford travel, travels for business ranges between 20-60 year olds = 160M
calculating maximum demand:
long weekends in summer are peak travel times, lets assume 60% of population who are able and can afford travel, do so during long weekend = 0.6x160M
lets say 60% of this population choses prefers domestic travel while 40% go international (consider Mexico, Canada, London are international"
Ananya M. - "US population = 330M , 80M across 4 generations
population that is physically able to travel, can afford travel, travels for business ranges between 20-60 year olds = 160M
calculating maximum demand:
long weekends in summer are peak travel times, lets assume 60% of population who are able and can afford travel, do so during long weekend = 0.6x160M
lets say 60% of this population choses prefers domestic travel while 40% go international (consider Mexico, Canada, London are international"See full answer
"Me: thanks for the question, let me ask a few clarification questions if that's ok. Are those both personal and business users of Gmail?
Interviewer: you can consider only the personal ones.
Me: perfect, by personal ones, you mean the ones with [email protected], right?
Interviewer: yes.
Me: right, thank you. Also, are we considering e-mail users that use the Gmail platform or anyone who has a @gmail.com type of e-mail?
Interviewer: anyone that has a @gmail.com e-mail.
Me: Ok, finally, last"
Talles S. - "Me: thanks for the question, let me ask a few clarification questions if that's ok. Are those both personal and business users of Gmail?
Interviewer: you can consider only the personal ones.
Me: perfect, by personal ones, you mean the ones with [email protected], right?
Interviewer: yes.
Me: right, thank you. Also, are we considering e-mail users that use the Gmail platform or anyone who has a @gmail.com type of e-mail?
Interviewer: anyone that has a @gmail.com e-mail.
Me: Ok, finally, last"See full answer
"Clarification questions:
Does this include Street view photos, which includes (roads & highways, underwater & insider building and walking street view photos) ? No, for this question we will only look at photos taken via satellites.
Google earth photographs the entire earth including land and oceans ? Yes
Components of the equation
(Square mile covering land x Number of photos per sq mile x Size of each photo x cost) +
(Square mile covering ocean x Number of photos per"
Niaz - "Clarification questions:
Does this include Street view photos, which includes (roads & highways, underwater & insider building and walking street view photos) ? No, for this question we will only look at photos taken via satellites.
Google earth photographs the entire earth including land and oceans ? Yes
Components of the equation
(Square mile covering land x Number of photos per sq mile x Size of each photo x cost) +
(Square mile covering ocean x Number of photos per"See full answer
"First I will set up the formula, second I will calculate each of the components then adding them up. Finally, I will talk about corner cases if any.
1, To begin with, I want to think broadly what could go into the equation. Bandwidth depends on number of devices at a time, so if a student use both laptop and phone at the same time then we have 2. Beside, grad students need internet for various reasons, such as checking email, searching on Google for information, watching lectures... Different a"
Darren L. - "First I will set up the formula, second I will calculate each of the components then adding them up. Finally, I will talk about corner cases if any.
1, To begin with, I want to think broadly what could go into the equation. Bandwidth depends on number of devices at a time, so if a student use both laptop and phone at the same time then we have 2. Beside, grad students need internet for various reasons, such as checking email, searching on Google for information, watching lectures... Different a"See full answer
"Candidate: Before we go ahead I have a few clarifying questions, I’d like to ask.
Interviewer: Sure.
Candidate: What is the exact definition of a restaurant, are we counting coffee shops, bars, street food trolleys, homemade food shops that only has delivery to customers’ place and etc... kinds of a restaurant as well?
Interviewer: let’s assume that we only mean restaurants that people can go inside, order some food and eat. Let’s not consider bars and coffee shops and so"
Jasmin R. - "Candidate: Before we go ahead I have a few clarifying questions, I’d like to ask.
Interviewer: Sure.
Candidate: What is the exact definition of a restaurant, are we counting coffee shops, bars, street food trolleys, homemade food shops that only has delivery to customers’ place and etc... kinds of a restaurant as well?
Interviewer: let’s assume that we only mean restaurants that people can go inside, order some food and eat. Let’s not consider bars and coffee shops and so"See full answer
"Questions:
What is the purpose of the scooters? (commuting in between office buildings or zipping across on the floor or for employees to be able to get to locations nearby e.g. lunch, coffee )
Is the entire workforce in the same building or multiple buildings?
If the employees in multiple buildings how far apart are they?
Where are the offices located? (lousy weather would mean more employees using scooters to save time and a more convenient transport)
Estimation:
Planning for highes"
JD - "Questions:
What is the purpose of the scooters? (commuting in between office buildings or zipping across on the floor or for employees to be able to get to locations nearby e.g. lunch, coffee )
Is the entire workforce in the same building or multiple buildings?
If the employees in multiple buildings how far apart are they?
Where are the offices located? (lousy weather would mean more employees using scooters to save time and a more convenient transport)
Estimation:
Planning for highes"See full answer
"Assuming for the US
Segment by size of businessNumber of employees per business sizePrice per employee=Revenue
Price per employee should decrease with a larger employee base.
30M businesses in the US
Small Business
60% of businesses are small=18M
Average number of employees=50
Price per employee=$5
Small Business Revenue=$2.7B
Medium Business
30% of them are medium=9M
Average number of employees=1000
Price per employee=$3
Medium Business Revenue=$8.1B
Large Business
10% of th"
Anonymous Puma - "Assuming for the US
Segment by size of businessNumber of employees per business sizePrice per employee=Revenue
Price per employee should decrease with a larger employee base.
30M businesses in the US
Small Business
60% of businesses are small=18M
Average number of employees=50
Price per employee=$5
Small Business Revenue=$2.7B
Medium Business
30% of them are medium=9M
Average number of employees=1000
Price per employee=$3
Medium Business Revenue=$8.1B
Large Business
10% of th"See full answer
"Assumptions
This estimation will not take into consideration service fees, delivery fees, or tips
we are specifically interested in consumer purchases of fruits and vegetables from local grocers (i.e. instacart, peapod, wholefoods/primenow, etc.)
Fresh and frozen produce are in scope
Equation
NYC annual online produce purchases = (Num NYC households) x (% pop. that purchase produce online) x ($ spent on online produce purchases)
(NYC HH) =
300M Americans --> 100M HH"
Kwabena B. - "Assumptions
This estimation will not take into consideration service fees, delivery fees, or tips
we are specifically interested in consumer purchases of fruits and vegetables from local grocers (i.e. instacart, peapod, wholefoods/primenow, etc.)
Fresh and frozen produce are in scope
Equation
NYC annual online produce purchases = (Num NYC households) x (% pop. that purchase produce online) x ($ spent on online produce purchases)
(NYC HH) =
300M Americans --> 100M HH"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions:
Assume US Audience or Worldwide?
US Only
Assume short form content or long form content ?
Assume all
Premium or Ads Support ?
All
Solution:
US Population 300M
Will remove 70 ages as not relevant audience or not have access to YouTube = 60m
Leaving 240M.
Adoption of YouTube with remaining Population = 60% (including overlap and exclusion with other services e.g. Netflix)
Total Audience that watches YouTube daily = 144m (about half of US Populat"
Sumeet R. - "Clarifying Questions:
Assume US Audience or Worldwide?
US Only
Assume short form content or long form content ?
Assume all
Premium or Ads Support ?
All
Solution:
US Population 300M
Will remove 70 ages as not relevant audience or not have access to YouTube = 60m
Leaving 240M.
Adoption of YouTube with remaining Population = 60% (including overlap and exclusion with other services e.g. Netflix)
Total Audience that watches YouTube daily = 144m (about half of US Populat"See full answer
"Is the "idea" I'm trying to sell something new or built off an existing service/product we offer?
Interviewer: Let's assume new.
Assuming it's a proper sit-down meeting with senior management to go over the proposal, here is what the slide deck would contain.
Introduction/Description of the problem I'm trying to solve: Before proposing a solution, it is important to first identify the problem we're trying to solve. This section would contain the description of the problem/pain poi"
Harshita G. - "Is the "idea" I'm trying to sell something new or built off an existing service/product we offer?
Interviewer: Let's assume new.
Assuming it's a proper sit-down meeting with senior management to go over the proposal, here is what the slide deck would contain.
Introduction/Description of the problem I'm trying to solve: Before proposing a solution, it is important to first identify the problem we're trying to solve. This section would contain the description of the problem/pain poi"See full answer