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Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Design a new app for dog walking.
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Product Design
Asked at Amazon • 4 years ago
How did COVID-19 affect Amazon?
Product Manager
Analytical
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"This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question. Let's go over one possible solution: > I'll list the three biggest ways I think COVID-19 affected Amazon. Fulfillment Issues > I imagine Amazon is getting much more volume of sales then they were previously. Although Amazon had a lot of sales before, quarantine has caused many people t"
Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question. Let's go over one possible solution: > I'll list the three biggest ways I think COVID-19 affected Amazon. Fulfillment Issues > I imagine Amazon is getting much more volume of sales then they were previously. Although Amazon had a lot of sales before, quarantine has caused many people t"See full answer
Product Manager
Analytical
Asked at Google, LinkedIn • 22 days ago
Tell me about your academic background.
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Behavioral
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Product Manager
Behavioral
Asked at Hubspot • 4 years ago
Which enterprise product do you look up to?
Product Manager
Product Design
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"This is a classic Favorite Product question with a constrained product type. For this, we want to make sure it's an enterprise product. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before diving in: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? How would you improve it/make it better? **Su"
Exponent - "This is a classic Favorite Product question with a constrained product type. For this, we want to make sure it's an enterprise product. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before diving in: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? How would you improve it/make it better? **Su"See full answer
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Product Design
Estimate the TAM for electric scooters in San Francisco.
Business Analyst
Data Analysis
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You’re told engagement is flat even though new users are increasing—what questions would you ask and what data would you look at?
Product Analyst
Data Analysis
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Product Analyst
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Asked at Zendesk • 5 years ago
Estimate global sales revenue for Chipotle.
Estimation
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"Understand the problem: Chipotle is a chain, located across the US. It's in every major city Make Assumptions I'm assuming in each state there's approx 5 Chipotle restaurants. So in total across US there is 5 * 50 = 250 Chipotle's Let's calculate the sales revenue for a whole year. Create an equation Total Yearly Revenue = # of people going to Chipotle X* *frequency X cost of a meal Break down the problem \# of people going to Chipotle There's about 300M in the US. Out of 300M I'll a"
Danyal R. - "Understand the problem: Chipotle is a chain, located across the US. It's in every major city Make Assumptions I'm assuming in each state there's approx 5 Chipotle restaurants. So in total across US there is 5 * 50 = 250 Chipotle's Let's calculate the sales revenue for a whole year. Create an equation Total Yearly Revenue = # of people going to Chipotle X* *frequency X cost of a meal Break down the problem \# of people going to Chipotle There's about 300M in the US. Out of 300M I'll a"See full answer
Estimation
Asked at One Acre Fund • a year ago
What would you do if a competitor launched a product before you?
BizOps & Strategy
Product Strategy
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"I remain in market no matter what comes my way"
Kakooza R. - "I remain in market no matter what comes my way"See full answer
BizOps & Strategy
Product Strategy
Asked at Adobe, TikTok • a year ago
Print all possible solutions to the N-Queens problem.
Data Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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Data Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Amazon, Microsoft • 5 months ago
What are the differences between a vulnerability, threat, and risk?
Security Analyst
Technical
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Security Analyst
Technical
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Asked at Amazon, Apple • 5 months ago
Where would you check in Linux to investigate a malicious process?
Security Analyst
Technical
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Security Analyst
Technical
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How would you explain cricket to someone who has never encountered the sport?
Product Manager
Behavioral
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Behavioral
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Asked at LendingClub • 5 years ago
How do you launch and test a self-driving car?
Analytical
Execution
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"I would launch the self driving car e.g. Audi has done in the past. I would use AWS Deep Racer -> Rewards algorith and pythons function to do the same."
Sonali S. - "I would launch the self driving car e.g. Audi has done in the past. I would use AWS Deep Racer -> Rewards algorith and pythons function to do the same."See full answer
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What is entropy and how is it used in machine learning?
Concept
Machine Learning
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Concept
Machine Learning
Asked at Google • 5 years ago
How could Android gain market share from iOS?
Product Strategy
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Product Strategy
You're a PM at Swiggy. How would you design a new segment for liquor on Instamart?
Product Manager
Product Design
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Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Indeed • 4 years ago
You meet the VP of Product in an elevator who suggests Indeed.com should change its results page to infinite scrolling. What would be your next steps?
Product Manager
Product Design
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Product Manager
Product Design
Design a supermarket that caters to older adults.
Product Manager
Product Design
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"Asked clarifying questions Thought through the motivation (came up with a mission and business model, modeled it on Safeway with agreement from the interviewer User segmentation both by age groups and behavior, then prioritized user group Went through user journey (both physical store and online) to identify pain points Prioritized pain points Came up with 5 solutions Interviewer picked one for me to deep dive. I went into detail on that one. "
Samya S. - "Asked clarifying questions Thought through the motivation (came up with a mission and business model, modeled it on Safeway with agreement from the interviewer User segmentation both by age groups and behavior, then prioritized user group Went through user journey (both physical store and online) to identify pain points Prioritized pain points Came up with 5 solutions Interviewer picked one for me to deep dive. I went into detail on that one. "See full answer
Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Pathmotion • 5 years ago
What key metrics would you choose for Glassdoor and how would you increase them?
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Execution
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Execution
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Given an unsorted array, find duplicate elements in constant time, without using inbuilt functions of python.
Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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"I got it right"
Rudransh V. - "I got it right"See full answer
Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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