"Few clarifying questions here
Is the competitor a service and does it have other offerings as well? Is it charging $5 for a service or only email?
Is it for a specific platform here? Or does it include all platforms?
Does the competitor have a huge market share/or is it a small company?
Let's assume it's only for email's
The structure I would want to layout for knowing what to do next for Gmail would be the following - Mission, Goals, Google's revenue model, Customer Profiles using Gm"
Pratik M. - "Few clarifying questions here
Is the competitor a service and does it have other offerings as well? Is it charging $5 for a service or only email?
Is it for a specific platform here? Or does it include all platforms?
Does the competitor have a huge market share/or is it a small company?
Let's assume it's only for email's
The structure I would want to layout for knowing what to do next for Gmail would be the following - Mission, Goals, Google's revenue model, Customer Profiles using Gm"See full answer
"I recently led the development and implementation of a data analytics platform tailored for credit unions and mortgage companies, which was suffering from fragmented systems, inconsistent data fields across LOS platforms, and outdated reporting practices. Here's how I managed the full lifecycle:
✅ Initiation / Discovery
Conducted executive interviews across five financial institutions to understand reporting and visibility gaps.
Shadowed loan officers and underwriters"
Simran S. - "I recently led the development and implementation of a data analytics platform tailored for credit unions and mortgage companies, which was suffering from fragmented systems, inconsistent data fields across LOS platforms, and outdated reporting practices. Here's how I managed the full lifecycle:
✅ Initiation / Discovery
Conducted executive interviews across five financial institutions to understand reporting and visibility gaps.
Shadowed loan officers and underwriters"See full answer
"As you know, this is the most important question for any interview. Here is a structure I like to follow,
Start with 'I'm currently a SDE/PM/TPM etc with XYZ company.... '
Mention how you got into PM/TPM/SDE field (explaining your journey)
Mention 1 or 2 accomplishments
Mention what you do outside work (blogging, volunteer etc)
Share why are you looking for a new role
Ask the interviewer if they have any questions or will like to dive deep into any of your experience"
Bipin R. - "As you know, this is the most important question for any interview. Here is a structure I like to follow,
Start with 'I'm currently a SDE/PM/TPM etc with XYZ company.... '
Mention how you got into PM/TPM/SDE field (explaining your journey)
Mention 1 or 2 accomplishments
Mention what you do outside work (blogging, volunteer etc)
Share why are you looking for a new role
Ask the interviewer if they have any questions or will like to dive deep into any of your experience"See full answer
"Scenario - I had joined a product in my current company as a PM midway through its development. It is a very sensitive product with a major public services company.
As the product was close to its go-live date, it had to go through many checks and many signoffs. A couple of them were through data policy department and the platform department, of which we were using all of the components for our product.
We needed policy sign off to authorise the use of data to understand user interactions and"
Umang S. - "Scenario - I had joined a product in my current company as a PM midway through its development. It is a very sensitive product with a major public services company.
As the product was close to its go-live date, it had to go through many checks and many signoffs. A couple of them were through data policy department and the platform department, of which we were using all of the components for our product.
We needed policy sign off to authorise the use of data to understand user interactions and"See full answer
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"Around mid-2023, I was tasked with investigating the feasibility of selling access to our site to third-party vendors who wanted to use bots to automate processes for their clients. Some initial work had been done on this but it was very high-level and very little data or analysis had actually been done. When I was tasked with this the idea was to sell access to a special header that would allow vendors to by-pass our F5 Shape implementation, a bot defense tool. From a business and security pers"
John F. - "Around mid-2023, I was tasked with investigating the feasibility of selling access to our site to third-party vendors who wanted to use bots to automate processes for their clients. Some initial work had been done on this but it was very high-level and very little data or analysis had actually been done. When I was tasked with this the idea was to sell access to a special header that would allow vendors to by-pass our F5 Shape implementation, a bot defense tool. From a business and security pers"See full answer
"Please Review. Thanks In advance!
Situation: ABC Product Planners asked me to help them to migrate their one Excel-based Macro into the web application. After having a few rounds of interviews with Product Planners, I realized that the macro was not able to solve their current problem due to its limitation and business teams were convinced that it couldn't be resolved completely. The key challenges they had with their current macro-based solutions were:
It was able to compute all bui"
Books' B. - "Please Review. Thanks In advance!
Situation: ABC Product Planners asked me to help them to migrate their one Excel-based Macro into the web application. After having a few rounds of interviews with Product Planners, I realized that the macro was not able to solve their current problem due to its limitation and business teams were convinced that it couldn't be resolved completely. The key challenges they had with their current macro-based solutions were:
It was able to compute all bui"See full answer
"I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"
Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer
"I was working for an Insurance company and I was the lead PM responsible for delivering HIPAA 5010 835 (statement of bill claims received vs paid) transactions to healthcare providers/hospitals For this initiative as a PM, I was responsible to create and prioritize features around file creation.
I collaborated with cross-functional teams, engineers, DevOps. First I conducted sessions with claims adjudication, SFTP file transfer, security, and privacy, clearinghouse, third-party vendors and ensu"
S P. - "I was working for an Insurance company and I was the lead PM responsible for delivering HIPAA 5010 835 (statement of bill claims received vs paid) transactions to healthcare providers/hospitals For this initiative as a PM, I was responsible to create and prioritize features around file creation.
I collaborated with cross-functional teams, engineers, DevOps. First I conducted sessions with claims adjudication, SFTP file transfer, security, and privacy, clearinghouse, third-party vendors and ensu"See full answer
"Situation: Our company was going through tech stack updated and our team tasked to migrate existing code into Typescript(TS) and all future development to be written with TS within our codebase.
TASK: Migrate existing codebase to TS and future integration to be TS compatible.
ACTION: The team deep dived into picking up TS skill and learnt some basics and focused on delivering the migration in phases. I prioritised the files to migrate based on levels of complexity. I created a Fil"
Shashank K. - "Situation: Our company was going through tech stack updated and our team tasked to migrate existing code into Typescript(TS) and all future development to be written with TS within our codebase.
TASK: Migrate existing codebase to TS and future integration to be TS compatible.
ACTION: The team deep dived into picking up TS skill and learnt some basics and focused on delivering the migration in phases. I prioritised the files to migrate based on levels of complexity. I created a Fil"See full answer
"For any project based questions, it is important to structure your response clearly, showcasing your thought process, technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and how your work added value. Besides the STAR method, you can also use this kind of framework:
1. Start by selecting a relevant project (related to the role)
Give the project background and what specific problem it solved.
2. Align the project's objective and your role
Be specific about your role: were you the le"
Malay K. - "For any project based questions, it is important to structure your response clearly, showcasing your thought process, technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and how your work added value. Besides the STAR method, you can also use this kind of framework:
1. Start by selecting a relevant project (related to the role)
Give the project background and what specific problem it solved.
2. Align the project's objective and your role
Be specific about your role: were you the le"See full answer
"One of the biggest risks I have taken was in a recent product, where we developed a new feature and released the feature externally without QA sign-off.
Feature - Interactive Travel Itinerary Maps
We had about ten days from the time we decided to include this new feature in the external launch. Usually, the biggest chunk of time in each release cycle was the sign-off from an external QA team. We fast-tracked the dev effort and completed the development of the feature in five days. Unfortunately,"
R S. - "One of the biggest risks I have taken was in a recent product, where we developed a new feature and released the feature externally without QA sign-off.
Feature - Interactive Travel Itinerary Maps
We had about ten days from the time we decided to include this new feature in the external launch. Usually, the biggest chunk of time in each release cycle was the sign-off from an external QA team. We fast-tracked the dev effort and completed the development of the feature in five days. Unfortunately,"See full answer
"Our application has millions of users and significant load on file upload feature.
Situation : In our legacy application we had a particular page which was accepting file uploads and it had the legacy way of selecting file uploads and page would redirect you to the next page or show an error message on failure.
Task : I had regular calls with the customer who had reported issue multiple times on this application area. In my calls my I also understood that client was expecting some inno"
Karthik T. - "Our application has millions of users and significant load on file upload feature.
Situation : In our legacy application we had a particular page which was accepting file uploads and it had the legacy way of selecting file uploads and page would redirect you to the next page or show an error message on failure.
Task : I had regular calls with the customer who had reported issue multiple times on this application area. In my calls my I also understood that client was expecting some inno"See full answer
"Request inputs/feedback on my response below with regards to this question and ways to improve and if it looks apt for this question.
As a TPM at xxx, I was responsible for delivering a feature that would provide prescription (medications) alternatives to users in the Prescription Shopping Consumer Experience App. The project had a tight deadline as it was something that our account management team promised to a client who wanted it for their employees. My goal was to ensure smooth development"
Pavani B. - "Request inputs/feedback on my response below with regards to this question and ways to improve and if it looks apt for this question.
As a TPM at xxx, I was responsible for delivering a feature that would provide prescription (medications) alternatives to users in the Prescription Shopping Consumer Experience App. The project had a tight deadline as it was something that our account management team promised to a client who wanted it for their employees. My goal was to ensure smooth development"See full answer
"I am the Lead PM for a product that analyzes calls made by prison inmates and looks for predictors of criminal intent. its primarily used by police investigators and the FBI. One of the main features we have in the app is Link Analysis which basically lists out all the calls an inmate has made for a specific time period.
This feature was built before my time. When I joined, the first thing I did was to implement analytics in the app. Looking at our numbers, I noticed that usage was less than 1%"
Aabid S. - "I am the Lead PM for a product that analyzes calls made by prison inmates and looks for predictors of criminal intent. its primarily used by police investigators and the FBI. One of the main features we have in the app is Link Analysis which basically lists out all the calls an inmate has made for a specific time period.
This feature was built before my time. When I joined, the first thing I did was to implement analytics in the app. Looking at our numbers, I noticed that usage was less than 1%"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions:
Assuming this will be part of FB product.
Assuming this is for the US and no major constraints in terms of finances or resources.
Goal: To improve user engagement
Travel Personas:
Solo personal Traveler
Group personal Travelers
Business travelers
Tour operators
Transportation Companies (airlines, roadways, trains etc).
Choosing to focus on group travelers because most personal travelers usually travel in groups and the volume of this user base"
P K. - "Clarifying Questions:
Assuming this will be part of FB product.
Assuming this is for the US and no major constraints in terms of finances or resources.
Goal: To improve user engagement
Travel Personas:
Solo personal Traveler
Group personal Travelers
Business travelers
Tour operators
Transportation Companies (airlines, roadways, trains etc).
Choosing to focus on group travelers because most personal travelers usually travel in groups and the volume of this user base"See full answer
"I will use below 4 pillars to rate and prioritize those 5 projects:
Analyze the impact of those 5 projects, to our team and to the whole company maybe
Find out if those 5 projects have any dependency between each other
Clarify the timeline of each project
Identity the status of resources to work on those 5 projects and also the status of their dependencies"
Dean Z. - "I will use below 4 pillars to rate and prioritize those 5 projects:
Analyze the impact of those 5 projects, to our team and to the whole company maybe
Find out if those 5 projects have any dependency between each other
Clarify the timeline of each project
Identity the status of resources to work on those 5 projects and also the status of their dependencies"See full answer