"Product Understanding -
Ads are what you see from companies as stories, posts, reels. Post are from users (connections). We have to design an experience which produces maximum engagement while generating ad revenue.
Clarifying Questions -
Is it specific to posts/stories/reels ?
Is there an existing post to ads ratio or do we have to start from scratch?
Is it specific to a device/OS?
Is it specific to a region/user demographic?
Assumption -
Existing posts to ads ratio"
Vishal S. - "Product Understanding -
Ads are what you see from companies as stories, posts, reels. Post are from users (connections). We have to design an experience which produces maximum engagement while generating ad revenue.
Clarifying Questions -
Is it specific to posts/stories/reels ?
Is there an existing post to ads ratio or do we have to start from scratch?
Is it specific to a device/OS?
Is it specific to a region/user demographic?
Assumption -
Existing posts to ads ratio"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions/Statements:
Clarify understanding of Fundraisers:
My answer: product that lets users create fundraisers for a particular cause, and invite/share it with other users to donate to that cause. Usually set for a certain target donation amount to be met, and a timeframe for which a user can donate to the cause
Are we assuming the lifecycle of the Fundraisers product today? If so, then I’d focus on engagement, since we have a meaningful amount of users on FB ap"
Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions/Statements:
Clarify understanding of Fundraisers:
My answer: product that lets users create fundraisers for a particular cause, and invite/share it with other users to donate to that cause. Usually set for a certain target donation amount to be met, and a timeframe for which a user can donate to the cause
Are we assuming the lifecycle of the Fundraisers product today? If so, then I’d focus on engagement, since we have a meaningful amount of users on FB ap"See full answer
"Implemented a recursive function which returns the length of the list so far. when the returned value equals k + 1 , assign current.next = current.next.next. If I made it back to the head return root.next as the new head of the linked list."
דניאל ר. - "Implemented a recursive function which returns the length of the list so far. when the returned value equals k + 1 , assign current.next = current.next.next. If I made it back to the head return root.next as the new head of the linked list."See full answer
"1. Sales & Revenue Metrics
Total Units Sold – Tracks overall headset sales volume.
Revenue Growth (%) – Measures whether revenue is increasing from headset sales over time.
Sales by Channel – Identifies how sales are distributed across Google Store, third-party retailers (Amazon, Best Buy), and carrier partnerships.
Sales by Region – Helps understand geographic demand and refine regional marketing efforts.
Attach Rate – Measures how often the headset is purc"
fuzzyicecream14 - "1. Sales & Revenue Metrics
Total Units Sold – Tracks overall headset sales volume.
Revenue Growth (%) – Measures whether revenue is increasing from headset sales over time.
Sales by Channel – Identifies how sales are distributed across Google Store, third-party retailers (Amazon, Best Buy), and carrier partnerships.
Sales by Region – Helps understand geographic demand and refine regional marketing efforts.
Attach Rate – Measures how often the headset is purc"See full answer
"Great question.
As a Product Manager, it is common to have to have difficult conversations with clients, stakeholders, or co-workers. This question actually reminds me of a time that I was faced with having to tell a client that the original estimate we gave them was much lower than it should have been and would, therefore, take much longer and cost a lot more as well.
In this scenario, we had to work within a client's legacy codebase and didn't realize the limitations, roadblocks, and barrie"
Kiley S. - "Great question.
As a Product Manager, it is common to have to have difficult conversations with clients, stakeholders, or co-workers. This question actually reminds me of a time that I was faced with having to tell a client that the original estimate we gave them was much lower than it should have been and would, therefore, take much longer and cost a lot more as well.
In this scenario, we had to work within a client's legacy codebase and didn't realize the limitations, roadblocks, and barrie"See full answer
"Great. I will start by understanding the goal of Google Photos and how it aligns with the goal and mission of Google. After defining goals, I will talk about the user actions which will contribute towards this goal. Based on these actions, we will define metrics.
Check-in with the interviewer on the approach here. Assuming that this looks good for the interviewer to proceed.
Google Photo - Helping users organise & manage their pictures. Completely in line with Google's mission.
Thinking ab"
Harshit G. - "Great. I will start by understanding the goal of Google Photos and how it aligns with the goal and mission of Google. After defining goals, I will talk about the user actions which will contribute towards this goal. Based on these actions, we will define metrics.
Check-in with the interviewer on the approach here. Assuming that this looks good for the interviewer to proceed.
Google Photo - Helping users organise & manage their pictures. Completely in line with Google's mission.
Thinking ab"See full answer
"I most want to communicate a few principals of conflict resolution that I believe were integral in this situation, which are mutual respect, a results orientation, an unwavering focus on the user.
To that end, here’s how I’d like to structure this answer: First, I’ll tell you about the project we were working on, to provide some background for you. Second, I’ll describe the disagreement. Third, I’ll describe how we arrived at a solution, and finally, I’ll discuss how those 3 conflict resolu"
Ross B. - "I most want to communicate a few principals of conflict resolution that I believe were integral in this situation, which are mutual respect, a results orientation, an unwavering focus on the user.
To that end, here’s how I’d like to structure this answer: First, I’ll tell you about the project we were working on, to provide some background for you. Second, I’ll describe the disagreement. Third, I’ll describe how we arrived at a solution, and finally, I’ll discuss how those 3 conflict resolu"See full answer
"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"
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
"PS: Below is my solution. Appreciate if you can provide feedback to improve
Followup Questions:
Are you referring to Credit Cards or Debit Cards?
Assuming it's about Credit Card
Why does Capital One want to issue Virtual Cards? (want to know any specific goal in mind)
Want to improve security standards which will result in more usage (user purchases)
Which user segments do you want to target? (Want to if they are focusing value from a specific user segment)?
Assuming they are focu"
Naga M. - "PS: Below is my solution. Appreciate if you can provide feedback to improve
Followup Questions:
Are you referring to Credit Cards or Debit Cards?
Assuming it's about Credit Card
Why does Capital One want to issue Virtual Cards? (want to know any specific goal in mind)
Want to improve security standards which will result in more usage (user purchases)
Which user segments do you want to target? (Want to if they are focusing value from a specific user segment)?
Assuming they are focu"See full answer
"Lyft is a ride hailing platform where the users can request the rides on the app and the drivers can fulfill the rides based on their availability and willingness
Goal: So here we want to design a ride hailing platform for college students for there commute
From home to college
College -> Home
Inside campus
Why do we want to concentrate specially on students? Data analysis of existing ride pickup and drop location and time analysis
Hypothesis: A good share of rides are originating from"
Rutuja A. - "Lyft is a ride hailing platform where the users can request the rides on the app and the drivers can fulfill the rides based on their availability and willingness
Goal: So here we want to design a ride hailing platform for college students for there commute
From home to college
College -> Home
Inside campus
Why do we want to concentrate specially on students? Data analysis of existing ride pickup and drop location and time analysis
Hypothesis: A good share of rides are originating from"See full answer
"The question is bit vague (I guess deliberately) so I believe firstly we shall ask questions and resolve ambiguity. Some initial questions could be :
1) Is this one time activity or something that should be done on continuous basis. If continuous basis then at what frequency.
2) How much staleness is acceptable in SYSTEM Y data
3) Are there any limitation in SYSTEM Y and is it fair to assume that we would need some kind of transformation to bring data into SYSTEM Y schema.
4) What kind of vol"
Kshitij A. - "The question is bit vague (I guess deliberately) so I believe firstly we shall ask questions and resolve ambiguity. Some initial questions could be :
1) Is this one time activity or something that should be done on continuous basis. If continuous basis then at what frequency.
2) How much staleness is acceptable in SYSTEM Y data
3) Are there any limitation in SYSTEM Y and is it fair to assume that we would need some kind of transformation to bring data into SYSTEM Y schema.
4) What kind of vol"See full answer
"Background
A. Objective
Lyft has a presence in Toledo, Ohio. At our current revenue per ride of $6, we can match 60% consumers requesting a ride with a driver. Our goal is to maximize net revenues in the next 12 months by figuring out the optimal revenue per ride.
B. TLDR Summary
· With a target market of (~100K-138K) consumers, on a $25 charge to consumers, Lyft should pay $20.75 to drivers and fix its share at $4.25 to maximize its net revenues over a 12-mont"
Eshan P. - "Background
A. Objective
Lyft has a presence in Toledo, Ohio. At our current revenue per ride of $6, we can match 60% consumers requesting a ride with a driver. Our goal is to maximize net revenues in the next 12 months by figuring out the optimal revenue per ride.
B. TLDR Summary
· With a target market of (~100K-138K) consumers, on a $25 charge to consumers, Lyft should pay $20.75 to drivers and fix its share at $4.25 to maximize its net revenues over a 12-mont"See full answer
"Here's my structure:
Align with interviewer on understanding of the product and state key assumptions
Product rationale
What is the product (1-2 sentences)?
Why does it exist? How does it fulfill Meta's mission?
Who are the key stakeholders and users of the product?
Business goal:
Key Users and value
User type
User flow (high level)
Intersection of value
North Star Metric
Supporting metrics for different user types
Counter-metrics"
Anonymous Bird - "Here's my structure:
Align with interviewer on understanding of the product and state key assumptions
Product rationale
What is the product (1-2 sentences)?
Why does it exist? How does it fulfill Meta's mission?
Who are the key stakeholders and users of the product?
Business goal:
Key Users and value
User type
User flow (high level)
Intersection of value
North Star Metric
Supporting metrics for different user types
Counter-metrics"See full answer
"50% of users spending money on play store at a global level sounds off I would factor this to maybe 20% of play store users
I'd go about solving for it as follows:
Play store revenue has multiple revenue sources and in my view all are significant contributors, they are as follows:
Ads
Subscription revenue from app
In app purchases
I'll start with TAM(user count) for google play store = (population x internet penetration rate x smart phone share of internet users MINUS china user ba"
Rahul G. - "50% of users spending money on play store at a global level sounds off I would factor this to maybe 20% of play store users
I'd go about solving for it as follows:
Play store revenue has multiple revenue sources and in my view all are significant contributors, they are as follows:
Ads
Subscription revenue from app
In app purchases
I'll start with TAM(user count) for google play store = (population x internet penetration rate x smart phone share of internet users MINUS china user ba"See full answer
"Situation- I was leading a product through a complete overhaul to a new replacement product, and at the same time had to maintain the old product.
Concern -
In the old product, the team was usually stuck 40-50% of the time in bug fixing
This could have hampered the velocity and GTM of the new product
Action
Localised the problem to one major component - Export and Import Function- had 90% contribution to the issues
Worked with the engineering team to diagnose the issue, the issue was i"
Umang S. - "Situation- I was leading a product through a complete overhaul to a new replacement product, and at the same time had to maintain the old product.
Concern -
In the old product, the team was usually stuck 40-50% of the time in bug fixing
This could have hampered the velocity and GTM of the new product
Action
Localised the problem to one major component - Export and Import Function- had 90% contribution to the issues
Worked with the engineering team to diagnose the issue, the issue was i"See full answer