Interview Questions

Vijay P. - "Explained in STAR format one of the project situation where I had originally approved problem with different design which was correct approach that time. But as the project progressed that approach needed revision. Emphasized on facts why original approach was taken with points. Also focused tail end of discussion on learnings out of situation and how you end up deploying better solution from that learning."See full answer

Prerak B. - "Would like to ask some clarifying questions: Is it a digital product? Yes? Application or website? Geography we are targeting? Assuming it is an app. Are we a new company or startup? Do we have any tie ups with other companies to reach a wider audience? Assuming I am the product manager of this application – goal of the application is to encourage voting more questions: Are we in the election year? Nearing the voting phase? If yes, then it will be easier for us to get users fo"See full answer

Sandeep K. - "Clarifying Questions Improve Netflix; Geography? India Vision - Becoming the best global entertainment distribution service Objective: Growth Engagement Retention I would focus on Growth because Highly growing adoption of internet increasing purchasing power in T2&T3 Indian consumers are constantly in need of finding new content to watch aligned with Netflix strategy of producing content for indian masses I believe Netflix has a really good immersive viewing/wathcing"See full answer

Dinesh K. - "i dont know"See full answer

Cameron P. - "Assuming I am a PM for company X and my current task for the morning is resolving a new conflicting product requirement. First I would like to inquire more about the product and about the conflict. Product: Assuming I am new and I didn’t already know what the product was, what is our product's value proposition to our customers? How does our product align with our company's goals? What does success look like for our product? Have we been successful in the past? Who are our customers? Conflict"See full answer

Kiley S. - "Set Success metrics for Google Maps: Assuming we are focusing on mobile experience… Clarify the product: Overall, it is a directions app: Gets you from point a to point b Allows for several methods of transportation - car, public transit, walking, biking, rideshare After entering location, you click your transport method, and select get directions which leads you to steps to get to you location or if you are driving or walking it speaks to you giving youthe directions aloud based on sett"See full answer

Aakanksha R. - "My answer- A. Clarifying questions- External factors- Timelines, Geography, Competition Internal factors- Meta's goals for entering into fitness space, full-fledged app or part of any existing Meta app Goals- Will go after engagement, since it is a new app. B. Identifying users- Heavily/ Professionally into fitness Casual fitness enthusiasts Not interested in fitness C. Prioritizing user segments- I will prioritize #2. Segment #1 does not really need external motivati"See full answer

Rohan S. - "I got to play with a VR for the first time a few weeks ago at my friend’s house and I loved it, so this is a really fun question. Clarifying Questions Is this something we are looking to create Microsoft or are we a startup company etc? > Education can refer to elementary, high school, university, or even self-learning (e.g. Udemy). Is there a specific area we want to focus on? << What do y"See full answer

Rick E. - " from typing import List def getnumberof_islands(binaryMatrix: List[List[int]]) -> int: if not binaryMatrix: return 0 rows = len(binaryMatrix) cols = len(binaryMatrix[0]) islands = 0 for r in range(rows): for c in range(cols): if binaryMatrixr == 1: islands += 1 dfs(binaryMatrix, r, c) return islands def dfs(grid, r, c): if ( r = len(grid) "See full answer

Sri A. - "Success for Yelp reviews. (assuming these are standard reviews posted by customers, for a restaurant or bar or a cafe listed on Yelp. Has a 5-star calibration that users can enter and free-form text.) Select Metrics should span the entire funnel across adoption, engagement, quality, and overall impact for Yelp. Adoption metrics: Total # of reviews written, Avg reviews/ listing Engagement metrics: # reviews being scanned, marked as being useful, etc. Quality metrics: %ge of disputed"See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Spotify's mission is to empower artists to live off their art by sharing their creations with people around the world. This Discover Weekly feature is meant to recommend to each user a customized list of songs based on their interests, trends, and latest releases. Activation \# users using the Discover Weekly feature for the 1st time Engagement CTR or # clicks on songs from the Discover Weekly list \# artists followed through being recomm"See full answer

Mitchell K. - "How important are referrals? Do you need multiple vs. just one? Does it matter who refers you?"See full answer

Bimal M. - "Clarification questions: What do you mean by online furniture-selling market? Why would google want to do it? Why does google want to do it now? Where does google want to launch it? Let me make the assumptions answering above questions: It is like google flights, say we call it google furnitures, where it organizes, curates furniture information to the users and then refers to the seller website instead of selling furniture directly to the consumer like amazon, walmart, way"See full answer

Aswath B. - "basic drew the diagram"See full answer

Anna H. - "Great. I'm going to get started by asking clarification questions for (1) understanding of the gap by assessing current product features for bookings via platform?, (2) brainstorming possible solutions, (3) how to implement solutions, and (4) suggesting metrics to validate solutions towards an increase of bookings Clarification questions & Assumptions: What is customer segment (family/ group/ individual)? In which market? (individual & US market) Should I specifically focus on one of use ca"See full answer

devopsjesus - "This was a 60 minute assessment. The clock is ticking and you're being observed by a senior+ level engineer. Be ready to perform for an audience. The implementation for the system gets broken up into three parts: Implement creating accounts and depositing money into an account by ID Implement transferring money with validation to ensure the accounts for the transfer both exist and that the account money is being removed from has enough money in it to perform the transfer Implement find"See full answer

Nilanjan D. - "Amazon Prime will generally have a limited group of uploaders rather than a million of them. This should influence the design of the Uploader service as it doesn't need to scale that much. Also the Encoding service role was not too clear"See full answer

Esha - "Clarifying Questions What do we mean by ‘improve’? Is there a certain goal that we are trying to attain? Is there a target user that we are going for? Any constraints or things to keep in mind when building this? Assumptions Only focused on google docs and not collaboration on other G-suite products such as PPT or sheets What is Google Docs? Web-based productivity tool that allows you to access your files from any computer through your gmail account. You can also share and"See full answer

Aruna D. - "Assumption #1: the deal is signed and the customer now will being the process of moving to GCP Assumption #2 : the deal includes Iaas as well as Paas (App Engine) - moving apps from on prem to cloud Objective : Design a product that will help the customer onboard and successfully plan the move to GCP. Customer is using on premise and is new to cloud. Lets assume the tool should include the roadmap planning too ie decisions such as moving all vs some applications etc . As in any onboarding to"See full answer

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