Analytical Interview Questions

José N. - "My clarifying questions : what's the impact of the bug ? / responses : intermittent, no platform stability at risk, but a feature, many customer rely on this buggy feature what's the estimation of the user impacted ? / responses : 65% of the users how long to figure out a solution ? / reponses : 1 week My action plan : delay the publish of the release in order to protect the brand identity and customer trust talk to the big customer to explain the situation with transparency and nego"See full answer

Mark - "Clarifying questions: What's Airbnb goal in making this requirement? Are we talking about the listing for Airbnb's core business - lodging? Approach: Before we dive in, it would be beneficial for us to first discuss our base understanding of Airbnb's business, who are the user segments that this feature can impact, and some hypothesis on what Airbnb's goal should be Once we define the goal of this feature, we can go over our approach on how we will evaluate whether we should make"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical product rather that one already built. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature **Apply a UX flow to drive a"See full answer

Agnes D. - "Clarification: Would data insights be presented in the form of a dashboard and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)? (Assume yes) Hypothesis: Data insights relating to the health of an organization are presented in terms of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and via a dashboard. Approach: · Profile Target Users · Users’ Pain Points and Features to make data insights successful · Metrics · Other considerations Target Users: Since we are talking about the health of an organizati"See full answer

IamaPM - "First I would clarify what ad manager is? Ad platform provided by meta which can be used by users across any meta product - marketplace, instagram, facebook? Questions Is this decline in any specific region? Is this decline specific to an app/ product like Instagram/ marketplace Has the MAU of Ad Manager (users clicking on ad manager without publishing) declined or increased? An increase here might mean that the total ads published has not decreased as such , but the ratio has changed"See full answer

Ferri T. - "Clarification questions: What is the mission of the company? To connect people together to unleash their creativity. Is there any geographical areas that I should concentrate on? It is worldwide. Are there any constraints? No, there is none. Success of the usage of the app? The PM to pick. Approach: Establish the nature of the application. Establish the type of users that would be on the platform. Lay out what the user journey is. Define the metrics that are relevant. -"See full answer

Ted K. - "Depends on the memory available. Also if there's any structure to the data already. If this is just pure numbers random and all over the place and we don't need to worry about space. Then radix sort would be the best. But this all depends on what constraints the interviewer gives you."See full answer

Riku H. - "Great question. Before I start can I start asking some clarifying qs? By video I am assuming this is FB videos where it's selectively fed unto the newsfeed correct? Yes For FB events should the user be fed with their events, their friends, events or also events in their network? Good Q. I would say yes for the purpose of this question that that's all in scope. Is videos the same as reels? No in this case they are similar but different products where FB videos do not have the 90 sec t"See full answer

Anonymous Koala - "Let us define productivity. If there is a change in productivity what will be some of the impacts that can be used to measure if this is true? Finance: Are we meeting the quarterly revenue targets and able to increase our guidance as planned Tech: Are we innovating and introducing new products and services to the market, how does it compare to the historical performance People: Are people taking more days off and how is their average feedback on sentiments Partners/Customers: Who wor"See full answer

Anonymous Crab - "Clarification questions : What do we mean by International - not home country(or US) , 1st International launch ? What is the product, physical / digital / service ? - Assuming Linkedin Can we test it - what is the cost of testing it - Assuming Linkedin , so we can test the market with a soft launch , ads before a full blown launch other parameters to consider - Target market & customers Attractiveness of market Underserved needs - early mass/ signs of demand gen - are there local pr"See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Clarifying Questions: Are we not being able to see any data at all ? or are we not seeing the latest updated data? In either case I can categorize this problem with 3 causes System Issue Is it a be a production bug , where node failure happened? (data load failure) Did our event-engine schedule re-runs fail to run code that fetches underlying data? Are the Dynamics team making some design changes on the tool which may go live and have triggered the DB not being refreshed ? A"See full answer