Product Manager System Design Interview Questions

Ramesh Y. - "Clarification - is it Uber that is building the feature? Answer: Yes Assuming if Uber is the one building this feature, I would start with if and how does the feature help Uber's mission and north star metrics. Uber's mission is to provide reliable transportation around the world and the primary metric that i can think on a high level is Number of rides , Number of drivers and from business revenue perspective revenue per ride, revenue per rider and driver. I picked revenue per ride because it"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Assumptions: This is an entirely new app and not part of FB Clarification questions: Q: What type of doctors are they looking for? It seems like an app would be for a more generalist doctor to establish relationship and not some type of emergency situation A: Yes Q: When we say looking for doctors whats the scope of this? Should we include making the actual appointment, does this happen on platform? A: Yes, initial appointment Ok thanks based on that I think we have enough to get started. "See full answer

Bik D. - "Clarification: Explain the product - Facebook marketplace is a platform that helps connect buyers with sellers, usually to purchase used products but not limited to the same How do you define improve - Improve discovery and engagement on the platform Geography - India Why would Meta want to invest here ? Commerce is a growing space, and can help monetized beyond ads Leverage social graph to seek user feedback on products / sellers Competitors - OLX, E-c"See full answer

Akshai V. - "Google Assistant is the Voice AI which converts Natural Language to Queries/Instruction , processes it and get the results and again converts it back to Meaningful Results to the User Currently Google Assistant is Integrated in Multiple End Points. Phone Google Home Chrome Cast Google Chrome Books Some of the Use Cases Google Assistant is used is Making Phone Calls/Texting Asking General Queries/Searching for Information Integration with Devices and Turning them O"See full answer

nikilukman - "Clarifying questions #1: What does "investment" mean? #2: Verification badge already exists or not? #3: A verification badge is a special symbol (like a checkmark), usually displayed next to the username to identify/verify that an account with this badge is an authentic public figure or brand. It is NOT a way for Instagram to endorse the "importance" of verified accounts. Is this accurate? Anything else I should know of as a PM regarding the definition? **Assumption: Verification badge alre"See full answer

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Raina M. - "Clarify the ask/ goal and scope Talk about the general need for travel in a Covid/post covid world + how it aligns with Meta's mission and business (the Why) Audience /Behavior segmentation with needs/pain points Prioritize Suggested 3 Solution territories Dived deep into 1 and mentioned tradeoffs/ risks for that one Summarized with a few GTM considerations/ideas Please note: Although the interview was scoped for 30 mins, the interviewer spent the first 15 diving into past work e"See full answer

Xash C. - "This one is a great example of Build, Borrow, or Buy strategy framework (http://www.build-borrow-buy.com/build-borrow-or-buy-in-practice/) - explore and evaluate three different approaches: organic growth and building a product from scratch (e.g. Amazon building its own Amazon Restaurants service), partnering with an existing provider (e.g. enterprise-level partnership with Instacart or Lyft), or acquisition growth (e.g. Uber acquiring Postmates). Evaluate which approach makes sense for the com"See full answer

Karthik M. - "Structure Why should we build this? + market, company, product, trends Users Painpoints Solutions Summary Clarify company - 0 to 1 Why should build this Market factors Size and opportunity (tam) sizeable market - billions of dollars in TAM Competitors (1) governments (2) parkmobile (3) vendors for each parking lot (parking structures / lots, man people) Strengths Parkmobile - available anywh"See full answer

Ian R. - "You might build a product like this a few ways. I think you'd definitely want a temperature sensor device (maybe like a TMP422, or maybe there's a different one that is standard for wearables) that was worn by the individual. As far as tracking social distance, my answer here is more dependent on the state of the art of robust (wearable) distance measurement. Maybe there's something available better than ultrasonic sensors, maybe there's some kind of electromagnetism based solution that isn't in"See full answer

Darshak S. - "Clarifying Questions: There are several different types of therapists, do you have a particular therapist in mind? Like Mental health, physical health, food and nutrition etc? Reply: You can decide And do we know what country are we building this product, since that will help me narrow down the scope of the product? Reply: USA Approach: Define the product vision and the goal that we want to achieve Target Audience is for this particular product What problems do these user currently"See full answer

Brody C. - "Clarifying Questions: When you say Language Learning app, you're referring to a user wanting to learn a new language through a Meta property - not NLP tech correct? -- Yes Is this a stand-alone app, or part of Facebook or another Meta app? -- You choose Are there any restrictions like budget, or time for this learning app? -- Nope. Give me a moment to think about how I want to structure this answer: Mission // Goal of Language Learning App Competition Audience Segments Pain Points "See full answer

Yulia D. - "What age of kid we are speaking about? Lets assume 5-10 years what messenger app are we talking about? you can choose Who is creating the feature? you can choose Finally, do we have any constraints? no, please, just imagine ok. so I think company's goal should be giving the tools for building communities among the youngest ones. First I want to issue what is Kids messenger app. I have kid of 5 years old and among my friends there are only few with gudgets that can provide messenger f"See full answer

Karthik M. - "Assumptions & Clarifications Users have access to all Google Workspace applications like Google Drive, Gmail and the same photo editing tool - let us call this tool - Google Photo Editor (GPhoto). Users can share the images like Google Docs - giving people read-only, read-write / edit access Goals Google's vision is to organize the world's information and make it accessible. GPhoto's mission / goal is to organize the world’s photo and make it accessible to others to view, edit or"See full answer

Priya K. - "Clarifying questions : Which Kindle device are we talking about ? Kindle paper white, Kindle Oasis? , Kindle paper white 6.9' , Kindle tabs ? - Kindle oasis Kindle Oasis , what are the metric we are trying to achieve ? users onboarding? more marketshare? onboard amazon existing customers Landscape : Competition : In ebook readers, the main competition comes from Kobo, iPads, tabs. Kindle oasis feature is especially and absolutely for reading purpose and buying books to read and th"See full answer

Allison C. - "If I were to design a smartwatch app for Uber, I'd sort my work into two buckets: modifications fro the mobile-native app and new features that would be considered for the Uber experience on a smartwatch. As for modifications - you'd really have to think through the customer journey of ordering an Uber from your watch. For the purposes of this question, the only use case to use Uber would be to order and complete a ride from one point to another, not to look at ride history or get help on a pr"See full answer

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Sahil A. - "Clarifying question: By high-tech, we mean internet enabled refrigerator which uses technology and assists us in our decision making or takes decisions for us Users: Working women Homemakers Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Other family members (Elderly, Kids etc) Prioritized users: Working women, Bachelors and Spinsters living alone Problems: Food left in the refrigerator gets rotten as it goes out of notice I am at the supermarket and I dont know the inven"See full answer

M A. - "Clarifying question - Fb Timeline is essentially my profile wall on FB where I can post content. My friends, friends of friends or other users of FB can come and view my profile and stay connected. Content that I post on my timeline, also gets cross posted on my friends feed. Is that understanding correct? Are there any new goals of change of product strategy that I need to be aware of? Motivation/Why - FB timeline is a mature product, but it still aligns very well with Meta mission of connec"See full answer