Interview Questions

Vivan B. - "Feedback would much appreciated as I have not practiced many product strategy questions Clarifying questions Can we assume this is the first time Google has entered the elevator market? Or are there prior elevators to this one? Let's assume first time Is this a large elevator for industrial use like heavy goods/freight etc. or is it an elevator for apartment blocks and commercial premises? Let's assume passenger elevator Is there a geography for this launch? Let's assume the US"See full answer

Sai vuppalapati M. - "At a high level, the core challenge here revolves around building an effective recommendation algorithm for news. News is an inherently diverse category, spanning various topics and catering to a wide array of user types and personas, such as adults, business professionals, general readers, or specific cohorts with unique interests. Consequently, developing a single, one-size-fits-all recommendation algorithm is not feasible. To enhance the personalization of the news recommendation algorithm,"See full answer

John F. - "Currently, I do a lot of data analysis using Azure Databricks and PowerBI. In Databricks, I write some basic SQL queries to retrieve the data and then pull that data into PowerBI for analysis. While this is sufficient, I believe there is room to make this skill set stronger. One way that I mitigate this currently is to maintain a strong relationship with our data analytics team. Whenever I have issues massaging or querying the data, I will reach out to one of those team members to help me get to"See full answer

Anonymous Prawn - "Would be better to adjust resolution in the video player directly."See full answer

Niranjan M. - "Interesting question. Let's take a step back and focus on the WHAT and WHY of Google Flights. The narrative for Google Flights as a product or platform imo is: As a platform, I wish to make flight information available, so that users can make knowledgable decisions based on their travel needs. So essentially, it helps users by providing information, so that they can make optimized decisions. In order to determine if Google should introduce ads, we should consider the impact on both val"See full answer

Maggie Y. - "8 Questions in 1 hr. no additional info is available from the interviewer, not much interaction. I still don't quite understand their objective."See full answer

Singer29 - "Let me tell you about a time when my manager was on a two week PTO and I was building the post-MVP roadmap for a newly launched product. Being a SaaS platform for supporting restaurants, I'd led the conception, planning, development and launch of the MVP for an online ordering solution for diners in restaurants. After the launch of the MVP, our original plan was to build features which supported table-service restaurants like keeping an open tab. But while looking at the data, I realized that a"See full answer

Vikas T. - "Too much talk nothing concrete to know about the person that I am interviewing."See full answer

TurboPM - "Assumptions: Geo: US Channels: Both Mobile/Web Includes Stocks and other kinds of tradable financial instruments Product for end users and not for FB employees to trade stocks or financial Instruments Separate App or integrated within the FB Blue App? Integrated within the Blue App Constraints:None Why might this make sense for FB? Recently with the advent of free retail trading platforms like Robinhood stock trading has been democratized and common people, young and old, hav"See full answer

Soledad A. - "Where is the second part of the video?"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Interviewer : How would you reduce ride cancellation on Uber ? Shailesh : Okay before I jump onto the solution, I would like to clarify some points for better understanding. So ride can be cancelled from the both the parties rider and the driver ? So which side are we talking about ? Interviewer : we are seeing more cancellation from diver side. Shailesh : From how long we are seeing this trend ? Interviewer : you can say from an year. Shailesh : Okay, also are we seeing these cancellations from"See full answer

Scott S. - "Great question! Last year, we were working on a critical project to develop a real-time risk analytics platform. This platform was designed to provide our traders with instantaneous risk metrics, allowing them to make informed decisions in a fast-paced trading environment. Midway through the project, we faced a significant issue: our chosen data processing framework was not performing as expected under the high data throughput required by our trading algorithms. This was causing unacceptable lat"See full answer

Gunjan B. - "Google flights doesn't have a booking experience. Is this even a real question?"See full answer

Maya B. - "Sounds like interesting problem! First I'd like to clarify a few things.... Clarify/Find Constraints. WHO - who are we improving the post-booking experience for? restaurant visitors? or restaurant staff who view reservations? new vs existing users? WHAT - what do we mean by improve? is there a specific metric we're looking to improve upon (user experience? increasing show-up rate? booking a second time? etc.?) confirm process/JTBD - are we referring to the standard OpenTab"See full answer

Darren L. - "First I will set up the formula, second I will calculate each of the components then adding them up. Finally, I will talk about corner cases if any. 1, To begin with, I want to think broadly what could go into the equation. Bandwidth depends on number of devices at a time, so if a student use both laptop and phone at the same time then we have 2. Beside, grad students need internet for various reasons, such as checking email, searching on Google for information, watching lectures... Different a"See full answer

Bk - "To bring any product to market here are the below steps that I would (did) take: 1.Understand the problem stmt / stakeholder need and asses depth of the problem (qualitatively and then gather metrics to quantify it) 2.Do market study on understanding relatable solutions if any 3.Carve out viable solution/ideation that aligns with overall Business Vision/Goal 4.Get stakeholders buy in on the idea 5.Guesstimate and prioritize high level features, Cost and ROI. 6.Build Business case for Project Le"See full answer

Ishan S. - "I can see that Gen Z (born between 1995 and 2009) needs a redesigned washing machine with a busier life than ever, newer living arrangements, and a longer time frame. Let's try and understand why we need a new product for Gen Z: Clarifying question - 1) Do we have a specific goal while redesigning the machine? Should we optimize for speed, space, or functionalities? (Assume - No) 2) Do we have geographical constraints? Countries have different power and electrical thresholds, which can decide"See full answer

Sireesha R. - "Use Dutch National Flag Algorithm to solve the problem"See full answer