Interview Questions

Ben G. - "Situation - A time I dealt with conflict while on a team was while I was working at Shopify on physical and digital gift card refund point of sale solutions. The situation was that we were dealing with complex technical constraints including not changing particular UI components behavior to act as they should be intended. On the refund screen, the existing design was using a toggle on the same screen to bring up a modal for gift card selection to either select digital or physical options. Thi"See full answer

Sachin R. - "If 0's aren't a concern, couldn't we just multiply all numbers. and then divide product by each number in the list ? if there's more than one zero, then we just return an array of 0s if there's one zero, then we just replace 0 with product and rest 0s. what am i missing?"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

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

Matan S. - "What are your top 3 favorite apps? (after picking one) How would you improve it? YNAB - You need a budget Robinhood Chase How would you improve YNAB? Clarifying questions What's my role? I'm a product manager at YNAB Why do we want to improve YNAB? Is there any specific goal? Structure YNAB - I'll share some information on YNAB Ynab's mission is to create the best budging app and empower people to gain control over their money and their life. Ynab's business model is a"See full answer

Temesgen B. - "Very Good Explanation Thanks For This Rely Good Explanation"See full answer

Charmi S. - "Clarification: Why South Korea and why Google has expanded their yet. I know there are some government security concerns which have bene in place but how is this integration going to expand Is this something like Google Maps itself or is it tailored to particular needs or region Google Mission & Why we want to expand? Google mission is to organize world's information and make it universally available. The Google Map in South Korea aligns with this as it will help people navigate through t"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

Saket S. - "I will look at the % of overspend. If we are within 10%, I would not worry about it too much as most budgets factor in 10% contingency. If Budget has exceeded 10% Threshold, I will use the following approach: Deep dive on current status: Understand % work completed/accepted Analyse Schedule/Time progress Understand Project Priority: P1/P2/P3 Resourcing: Internal/External Complexity: Technical design (Number of Applications involved/ Number of Interfaces to be build e"See full answer

Ilnur I. - "I really appreciate how he clearly explains every term he uses!"See full answer

Ashvini B. - "Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience. 2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general 3) Market - US 4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B. Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience. User-segments: People who use i"See full answer

Kishor J. - "we can use two pointer + set like maintain i,j and also insert jth character to set like while set size is equal to our window j-i+1 then maximize our answer and increase jth pointer till last index"See full answer

Anonymous Puma - "Assuming for the US Segment by size of businessNumber of employees per business sizePrice per employee=Revenue Price per employee should decrease with a larger employee base. 30M businesses in the US Small Business 60% of businesses are small=18M Average number of employees=50 Price per employee=$5 Small Business Revenue=$2.7B Medium Business 30% of them are medium=9M Average number of employees=1000 Price per employee=$3 Medium Business Revenue=$8.1B Large Business 10% of th"See full answer

Anonymous Roadrunner - "-- Write your query here select id, (case when p_id is null then 'Root' when pid in (select id from treenode_table) and id in (select pid from treenode_table) then 'Inner' else 'Leaf' end) as node_types from treenodetable order by 1; `"See full answer

Ram - "Clarification Are we focusing on building the product on a specific Meta platform (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), or is this a standalone effort? Is the product digital or physical? Are we targeting internal (employees) or external (customers) users? Are there any specific constraints like funding, resourcing, or geography? 1. Narrowing Down the Problem Awareness and Education: Create tools to increase understanding of climate change and its effects. -"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions: What are Discovery features on IG? My assumed answer: posts of followers you don’t already follow that you see on the Discovery tab of IG. The posts consist of video clips, IGTV posts, and pics. User can browse through endless scroll of posts, and can filter by category (e.g. sports, comedy, etc.) on the Discovery tab. Exclude IGTV and IG Shopping, which can also be accessed by Discovery tab, and just focus on Discovery of users you don’t already follow as"See full answer

rocketscientist - "I was the PM of a beta product which started to be utilized by a range of users. Although I maintained and communicated a road map that outlined upcoming features at a high level, it wasn't very clear to the users whether certain features were going to be improved, certain low level features were going to be added, or whether these were on our radar at all. We don't have a large team to support call desk or a marketing team. I was having multiple, one of conversations with different users and c"See full answer