Interview Questions

Anonymous Muskox - "YouTube Goal -> Give voice to everyone and show them the world, Video -> Shorts( Dominated by Shorts, Reels, Tiktok Mid(1-25 Min). -> Youtube Medium Long(60-90 Mins) -> [Opportunity] Long(150-180 Mins) -> OTT Platform, Movies Youtube can assist content creators on Youtube to make high-quality Film Like Videos without any Production Setup. Assisting Content Creators to create Movies with"See full answer

Vince S. - "1. Requirements Analysis Functional Requirements Video streaming with multiple quality levels Content browsing and search Continue watching functionality Content recommendations Non-Functional Requirements Low latency video delivery (<2s startup time) High availability (99.99% uptime) Scalability to handle millions of concurrent streams API response time < 100ms 2. Microservices Architecture Core Microservices Content Service Content metadata mana"See full answer

Puneet A. - "I recently had an experience with the Chipotle mobile app where I accidentally placed an extra order. Realizing my mistake within seconds, I tried to edit or cancel the order but found no option to do so in the app. Despite searching FAQs and attempting to contact the local store, I couldn't resolve the issue in time. This experience highlighted the importance of user-friendly design and clear communication in apps. If I were managing such a product, I would advocate for features like a grace pe"See full answer

Shyla R. - "Questions Couple of questions to make sure we are on the same page with respect to my overall product understanding and its positioning in the market. Product understanding: FB Pay is a Payment/ Wallet offering using which customers can securely make peer-to-peer payments using Messenger/WhatsApp or even make purchases on FB / Instagram etc. Also, competitors with similar offerings are Apple Pay, Google Pay (to name a few). Is this a fair understanding of the product? Ans: Yes. Cu"See full answer

Vihari K. - "At RTI while working on content-based recommender system on our ecommerce site, we received request from one of our distributor clients to make the system not only suggest products based on their purchasing history but also exclusively push higher priced items, regardless of their actual needs or demand patterns, it was challenging situation because it contradicted the primary purpose of our system, which was value based, patient centric product recommendations. To understand in this situation i"See full answer

Alvis F. - "Requirements and Goals Primary Goal:Store key-value pairs in a cache with efficient access (reads/writes). Evict items based on a certain “rank,” which might reflect popularity, frequency, or custom ranking logic. Functional Requirements:Put(key, value, rank): Insert or update a key with the given value and rank. Get(key): Retrieve the value associated with the key if it exists. Evict(): If the cache is at capacity, evict the item with the lowest rank (or according"See full answer

Danyal R. - "Start with OpenTable's goal: making reservations easier for customers. If user's are having bad experiences then that impacts the key metrics ( # of bookings), create a negative brand perception with the potential to lose customers. Focus on ecosystem: customers making reservations & merchants/businesses each have different pain points. For the sake of time, focus on customer's experience. Post Booking User Flow User receives a post booking confirmation (date/time"See full answer

Alfredo M. - "First, I'd like to ask some clarifying questions and try to narrow down the scope of this question. Among them I would like to ask: Are we looking to optimize for a specific goal or metric? Eg: we want more users/queries or are we looking to increase revenue? Are we testing over a specific aspect of Bing? EG: UI, search quality results, recommendation engine, etc. Duration and size of the test. Available resources or constraints (teams, technology, budget) Now, to ass"See full answer

Simer S. - "I would start by asking a clarifying question - Is there a specific problem we are trying to solve? I want to get some guidance from the interviewer around the type of answer they're looking for or if there's specific paths they want us to take. Ultimately, I would start by identifying the users and moving through the process by identifying pain points and then potential solutions. It is important to start to get into the details of the solutions and features once pain points have been identifie"See full answer

Angie B. - "Clarify the problem to ensure you understand what to improve - reactions are used to react to posts or comments. They show the reactors' sentiments, emotions, and opinions in a simple yet clear manner without using words. Business Objectives What are the business objectives that we need to consider before digging deeper? Are there specific goals that we're trying to achieve by improving the reactions feature? We want to increase the number of engagement and want more users to react acro"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions: What city/ country are we talking about? Indian metro. What all counts as a grocery store? Do have to cover dark stores as well which are not open to public? Only consider all grocery stores where public pick up is allowed. Do we have to include hyper markets/ super markets as well or only smaller stores? Include both. Okay, so I would be considering the Indian metro of Bangalore here. The overall equation is , **total number of grocery stores = Number of small grocer"See full answer

Saket S. - "I will ask few clarifying questions to the interviewer: Is there any specific application that we are referring to (assuming B2C website/app) What are we Trading off here (assuming Requirements/Features) I will consider following criteria to prioritize Trade offs: Impact on User experience: In terms of usability, reliability, and efficiency Usability: Ease of Use, Intuitive UI Reliability: Functions as expected and produces desired results, tolerates user mistakes and prevents unauthor"See full answer

R K. - "As a Product Manager for Instagram Reels, understanding Meta's investment in this product requires considering the broader competitive landscape, primarily TikTok, and Instagram's monetization strategy through ads. The focus on Reels is a strategic move to capture a share of the short-form video market, increase user engagement, and drive ad revenue. Lets start with why Meta invested in Instagram reels 1. Competing with TikTok: TikTok's explosive growth in the short-form video space pose"See full answer

Christopher K. - "In order to answer this question, I am going to do the following: Ask some clarifying questions Go through some major external and internal possible causes Hypothesize and test/valid Conclusion 1. Ask clarifying questions Any particular market? Is it a US market or a new market with less than 12-18 months of full operation US market What do you mean by a given city? - Metropolitan with plenty of public transportations (subway, bus, etc), a large city with limit"See full answer

Manu S. - " Attributes of a good Product strategy: Good product strategy builds upon the company’s existing advantages (companion products, distribution channels, partner relationships, etc.). Good product strategy clearly identifies target customer segments and non-target segments. Good product strategy identifies leading and lagging indicators of success, whether they are metrics or milestones. Take both top down and bottom-up approach to formulate your strategy. Use top down to bring alignme"See full answer

Vivek S. - "Hey team, the title says a "GTM campaign" whereas the video is about "favorite marketing campaign" example. Are they supposed to be the same? If not, can you please fix it?"See full answer

Natalia N. - "Clarifying questions: How much is the decline? Since when have sales been declining? Make sure that it has correlation with competition and not a premature assumption that can come from something internal (not external competition). Is it all the stores? What is the variation in the dicline? If you have stores that have 20% less sales vs some that are steady, it might be something related to the store experience specifically. How does the decrease in sales compare to cities that ha"See full answer

Daisy N. - " function generateParentheses(n) { // your code goes here if(n === 0) return []; let allComb = [] backtrack(allComb, n, "", 0, 0); return allComb } function backtrack(allComb, n, current, open, close){ if(current.length === 2*n){ allComb.push(current); return } if(open < n){ backtrack(allComb, n, current + "(", open + 1, close) } if(close < open){ backtrack(allComb, n, current + ")", open, close + 1) "See full answer

Saleel P. - "This is my first attempt at an estimation question, any feedback is appreciated. I'd like to clarify if AirBNB's core services would include user reservations on its web/mobile platform on a per night basis. I'd also assume if we would to estimate the topline revenue (or gross merchandise sales) without factoring operational expenses and taxes. I'd also clarify if basing my estimation on revenue from its largest marketplace, US, is reasonable. Population of US - 350 MM Avg Household size - 2.5"See full answer

Jasmine Y. - "It depends on the size of the dataset. You want enough samples in both the testing, training and evaluation sets. If there is enough data, 70/20/10 is a good split"See full answer