Interview Questions

Rachel. kazir R. - "developing secured mobile phones for soldiers. too hot. the challenge was to find a creative ideas for power reduction on the existing technology"See full answer

D J. - "Clarifying Questions & Assumptions: Blue collar :relating to manual work or workers, particularly in industry, they usually dont have college degree Linkedin: a social network that focuses on professional networking and career development. Why is linkedin expanding to blue collar workers? Ans: to expand new market as they have great untapped potential Do you want anew app or integrate it with Linkedin? Ans: you decide I would like to look more into the problem space before deciding on tha"See full answer

Bhavneesh K. - "Tube light/batten"See full answer

stash - "Clarification LinkedIn Premium is a premium offering for LinkedIn members through which they get access to some additional features that are not available in the free version. Members can use these features to meet their goals When we talk about LinkedIn premium we are focused on the career product and not the sales / recruiter products? —> Yes, focused on individual members. Sales needs are solved through sales navigator and recuriter lite which are specialized premium tools *Goals"See full answer

David I. - "As I understand it, you’d like me to design a mobile native application (for iOS or Android) that helps people manipulate data similar to that of Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. You can add and import data, edit it, run calculations, regressions, and generate charts and graphs. If it’s ok with you, I’d like to confine the design to iOS, and based on my knowledge of how a product manager uses a spreadsheet. I’d like to approach this problem by first identifying the goal of the app. Since we’r"See full answer

Fiona Z. - "The music industry has been dramatically changed over the past few years because of streaming services. Today, instead of buying records or tapes and play them in a walkman, people stream music on their mobile app from an AI-generated list of songs tailored to their interests. However, streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora hasn’t been profitable even though they’ve grown into hundreds of millions of users. The cost of IP in the music industry is eating up the profit and making it hard t"See full answer

Tara J. - "I would like to speak loud to narrow the scope of this question so I can be effective in identifying a solution to the problem on hand. Hope that is OK. You mentioned, “Re-design the airport experience”. Is there a goal for this re-design exercise? Some top goals that come to my mind are the following. Please guide me so I can set it and we can proceed from there. “Increase the number of passengers who travel to and from this airport” “Improve customer satisfaction” **“Get in"See full answer

R K. - "Assumptions and clarifying Questions 1 - This will be a feature within the existing FB App and would utilize existing features - YES 2 - What is the goal of this new feature - User acquisition & increase engagement 3 -Is this feature around playing sports or watching sports - Playing 4 - Any specific geography to target - US 5 - Both mobile and desktop platforms - YES 6 - Any specific demographic to target - You choose 7 - Any constraints around go to market - 6 months 8 - Any other"See full answer

Jay C. - "How would you monetize messenger? Clarifying Questions Is this messenger app or web? INTERVIEWER: Assume both are a possibility, but feel free to pick one Is there a larger facebook goal or metric we are optimizing for? INTERVIEWER: Monetization speaks to revenue so assume goal is to increase revenue for Facebook as a whole Does this include messenger Rooms or should we stick to the traditional FB messenger? INTERVIEWER: _Messenger rooms is a great call out, but let's stick"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "To make sure we are on the same page, this is a feature in the current FB app that would make it easier for people to volunteer? Or more broadly, the feature would aim to expand the base of volunteers. To start I want to dive deeper on the objective of the feature. Then we can look at possible users, pick a segment and outline their needs, then look at some solutions. We can then prioritize and see how we might roll something like this out. If I look at FB mission of building community and brin"See full answer

Siddhartha S. - "Clarifying Questions - Are we trying to increase user base, engagement, adoption, or retention specifically? Is revenue also need to be considered? Interviewer - You decide Q- Ill go with increasing user engagement and retention because MSDN is a pretty well known website and been out there for a while now. Also, once we have user engagement and retention taken care of, revenue will follow Interviewer - Sure MSFT mission is to empower every person and org on the planet to achieve mo"See full answer

Mahesh M. - "Clarification questions Is this a new app or an existing one? - new Is this going to be part of fb or stand-alone - fb app or web - app geo - any/US consider pre covid or covid - covid Grocery store - physical or online store? - physical store FB mission - connect people together The goal of the grocery store - help local stores to connect with users and drive more revenue Users Shoppers 13 - 21 - limited shopping power 21 to 50 - tech-savvy, a fb account already. 50+ - not"See full answer

Siddharth R. - "IG already has a large user base. So the team would not need to look into acquire more people but enable new feature(s) for users to be more excited (which eventually would result in more people coming back more often). Facebook, as a company, strives to connect more people and help them have an amazing experience through interactions with their friends. This is the basic principle on which FB's various apps work on. So I would aim to build this feature with the overall vision of the company to"See full answer

P K. - "Redefining the question as: How will you solve the problem of misinformation on FB? Clarifying questions: Are we talking about building a product? (Up to you) What exactly is misinformation? (Fake news, inaccurate facts being shared on social media) Goal: Reduce the amount of misinformation spread on the platform and improve user trust. Key users associated with misinformation: News Accounts (eg CNN) - They may get involved in some controversy about a fake photoshopped artic"See full answer

Elisa L. - "Facebook’s mission statement is to build community, so any product related to movies that Facebook builds should have that in mind. I’ll start by looking at the lifecycle of a movie and then some current pain points that people might have to think about opportunities for a movies product. The lifecycle of a movie revolves around creation (script, filming, casting, acting), production, and distribution (streaming services vs theatres). An idea for creation could be helping users collaborate or"See full answer

Niaz - "Assumption about the teleportation machine: Teleportation is instantaneous like Star Trek The product does not take too much space maybe 6 ft by 6 ft and 10ft high is good enough Teleportation works vertically both above ground and underground as well as going 100 meters horizontally If possible you can combine multiple teleportation machine to repeat teleportation Users groups A product like this can be leveraged for almost everyone but I think I want to focus on users who ha"See full answer