"This is an Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula:
Ask clarifying questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Brainstorm small improvements
Brainstorm bolder improvements
Measure success
Summarize
Now, let's begin!
Ask clarifying questions
Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewer are on the same page"
Exponent - "This is an Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula:
Ask clarifying questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Brainstorm small improvements
Brainstorm bolder improvements
Measure success
Summarize
Now, let's begin!
Ask clarifying questions
Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewer are on the same page"See full answer
"It's always good to start with identifying what type of problem you're tackling. The problem we need to tackle is essentially a variation on a Favorite Product Question.
We know there's a formula for this type of question, so now our job is to tactically execute on the formula. Let's begin with the Favorite Product Question formula:
Choose a product and briefly explain what it is
Who are the users?
What are their pain points?
**How did competitors solve it in the"
Exponent - "It's always good to start with identifying what type of problem you're tackling. The problem we need to tackle is essentially a variation on a Favorite Product Question.
We know there's a formula for this type of question, so now our job is to tactically execute on the formula. Let's begin with the Favorite Product Question formula:
Choose a product and briefly explain what it is
Who are the users?
What are their pain points?
**How did competitors solve it in the"See full answer
"First I would like to define what a negative experience might construe
Unable to book the reservation
Customers unable to cancel reservations
The customers unable to find restaurants in the location they are in
customers unable to interact or leave reviews.
I will try to solve for the first one. In this scenario, I would like to understand the frequency of the issue’s occurrence.
I will try to understand if there was a new feature rolled out that may have impacted it such as chang"
Lakshmi tejaswi S. - "First I would like to define what a negative experience might construe
Unable to book the reservation
Customers unable to cancel reservations
The customers unable to find restaurants in the location they are in
customers unable to interact or leave reviews.
I will try to solve for the first one. In this scenario, I would like to understand the frequency of the issue’s occurrence.
I will try to understand if there was a new feature rolled out that may have impacted it such as chang"See full answer
"Load Balancer to multiple API Servers, pub sub system to publish user events, Game Engine Service, Write through cache and NoSQL DB.
HTTP Long Polling to get user status updates"
gdecuri - "Load Balancer to multiple API Servers, pub sub system to publish user events, Game Engine Service, Write through cache and NoSQL DB.
HTTP Long Polling to get user status updates"See full answer
"Cost
Reduce data cost (google fi cost 10$ per gb while in india costs are pretty less than that)
Can prompt to connect to closed wi-fi network if users has connected earlier
Coverage
In India, majority of the population lives in rural areas, need to solve for that
Safety and Security
Protect users from scamsters / malware /viruses etc.
Net Neutrality
Ensure that there is no bias towards google sites only"
P D. - "Cost
Reduce data cost (google fi cost 10$ per gb while in india costs are pretty less than that)
Can prompt to connect to closed wi-fi network if users has connected earlier
Coverage
In India, majority of the population lives in rural areas, need to solve for that
Safety and Security
Protect users from scamsters / malware /viruses etc.
Net Neutrality
Ensure that there is no bias towards google sites only"See full answer
"Let’s talk about goals first
Goals are:
Yelp: 1 I assumed that main goal is the revenue from advertising. It PPC advertising so we want more people to click on it. 2
Keep high user engagement level
advertisers: want to keep the CR and CPS.
Let’s discuss how can we define the appropriate number of ads:
We can set up AB testing with different number of ads. We want to see if there is significant revenue increase when we show 1,3,5 ads. We also want to check the tradeoffs and be sure tha"
Sg S. - "Let’s talk about goals first
Goals are:
Yelp: 1 I assumed that main goal is the revenue from advertising. It PPC advertising so we want more people to click on it. 2
Keep high user engagement level
advertisers: want to keep the CR and CPS.
Let’s discuss how can we define the appropriate number of ads:
We can set up AB testing with different number of ads. We want to see if there is significant revenue increase when we show 1,3,5 ads. We also want to check the tradeoffs and be sure tha"See full answer
"Clarification: What type of business partners are these, some examples? Why isn't a phone/Google meet sufficient for communication? Any specific countries - abroad?
With unlimited resources:
Mission - To drive increases in Google's business through partnerships
Goal of this project - Enable Sundar to communicate quickly and effectively with partners
Product vision - Multi-language simulcast of Sundar's message tailored for individual partners
Details:
Allow Sundar to relay the same message t"
Sarabjeet S. - "Clarification: What type of business partners are these, some examples? Why isn't a phone/Google meet sufficient for communication? Any specific countries - abroad?
With unlimited resources:
Mission - To drive increases in Google's business through partnerships
Goal of this project - Enable Sundar to communicate quickly and effectively with partners
Product vision - Multi-language simulcast of Sundar's message tailored for individual partners
Details:
Allow Sundar to relay the same message t"See full answer
"Clarification -
Are we referring to HW or SW/experience or overall product?
Choose any. Choosing overall product.
Are we targeting a particular use case - such as health/commerce/or am I free to choose one? Choose on your own.
Any other constraints that I should be aware or?
Lastly, does it have to meet both AR and VR, or can we prioritize one at this time? And if so, any concerns with prioritizing one? I am choosing to prioritize AR this point .. and I'll walk you thoroug"
SG - "Clarification -
Are we referring to HW or SW/experience or overall product?
Choose any. Choosing overall product.
Are we targeting a particular use case - such as health/commerce/or am I free to choose one? Choose on your own.
Any other constraints that I should be aware or?
Lastly, does it have to meet both AR and VR, or can we prioritize one at this time? And if so, any concerns with prioritizing one? I am choosing to prioritize AR this point .. and I'll walk you thoroug"See full answer
"Full travel packages. Flight + hotel + experiences.
They have all the data in the world to scrape to see some of the top places to visit in each city or country. Coupled with the ability to find the cheapest flights to make these trips affordable."
Patrick K. - "Full travel packages. Flight + hotel + experiences.
They have all the data in the world to scrape to see some of the top places to visit in each city or country. Coupled with the ability to find the cheapest flights to make these trips affordable."See full answer
"I am going to assume, the person is 50 years old and uses a basic feature phone. Here is how it goes
Local Context:
When you come back from morning walk, you are your friends stop at a chai point to rest and have tea, what do you talk about ? (Assume he says everything and anything). Imagine there are no friends but you still want to talk and you want your friends and everyone to listen to your thoughts / rant.
Imagine you don’t want to talk but you want only listen to what your frien"
Shahnawaz K. - "I am going to assume, the person is 50 years old and uses a basic feature phone. Here is how it goes
Local Context:
When you come back from morning walk, you are your friends stop at a chai point to rest and have tea, what do you talk about ? (Assume he says everything and anything). Imagine there are no friends but you still want to talk and you want your friends and everyone to listen to your thoughts / rant.
Imagine you don’t want to talk but you want only listen to what your frien"See full answer
"Clarifications:
Is it the voice only Alexa devices or includes echo show (video)?
Goal: To have people to safety quickest
Users:
Alexa owner
At the house when somebody breaks in
Family
Single adult/seniors
Outside the house at the time of break in
Police Department
Pain points/user group:
Owner in the house at the time of burglary
Inform all the house members at the earliest. Send SOS out on all/selective Alexa devices to ask family members to reach a safe place
2"
Chaitali M. - "Clarifications:
Is it the voice only Alexa devices or includes echo show (video)?
Goal: To have people to safety quickest
Users:
Alexa owner
At the house when somebody breaks in
Family
Single adult/seniors
Outside the house at the time of break in
Police Department
Pain points/user group:
Owner in the house at the time of burglary
Inform all the house members at the earliest. Send SOS out on all/selective Alexa devices to ask family members to reach a safe place
2"See full answer
"What age of kid we are speaking about? Lets assume 5-10 years
what messenger app are we talking about? you can choose
Who is creating the feature? you can choose
Finally, do we have any constraints? no, please, just imagine
ok. so I think company's goal should be giving the tools for building communities among the youngest ones.
First I want to issue what is Kids messenger app. I have kid of 5 years old and among my friends there are only few with gudgets that can provide messenger f"
Yulia D. - "What age of kid we are speaking about? Lets assume 5-10 years
what messenger app are we talking about? you can choose
Who is creating the feature? you can choose
Finally, do we have any constraints? no, please, just imagine
ok. so I think company's goal should be giving the tools for building communities among the youngest ones.
First I want to issue what is Kids messenger app. I have kid of 5 years old and among my friends there are only few with gudgets that can provide messenger f"See full answer
"First thing I would like to consider is what is the potential opportunity to building an apps marketplace.
Questions I would ask are:
What’s the current user base of Microsoft Office Suite? What is that in revenue? Is it growing or declining? Where are users going to if they’re leaving?
What are the most popular and least popular apps used in the Office suite?
What are other apps that Microsoft Officer users use outside of the suite?
Assuming that Microsoft Office has a massive us"
Patrick M. - "First thing I would like to consider is what is the potential opportunity to building an apps marketplace.
Questions I would ask are:
What’s the current user base of Microsoft Office Suite? What is that in revenue? Is it growing or declining? Where are users going to if they’re leaving?
What are the most popular and least popular apps used in the Office suite?
What are other apps that Microsoft Officer users use outside of the suite?
Assuming that Microsoft Office has a massive us"See full answer
"Clarification questions:
1) Is this a physical or digital product?
2) Are we enhancing an existing product or designing a brand new product?
3) Is this a product in the physical world or in the Metaverse? (I know Meta has recently expanded in virtual fashion space with partnerships with designer brands)
4) Competition with other fashion products [Depop, Nuuly, Rent the Runway, Pickle, Poshmark, Instagram Shopping)
5) Are there any time constraints on when MVP should be launched?
6) What market"
Sanjanaa S. - "Clarification questions:
1) Is this a physical or digital product?
2) Are we enhancing an existing product or designing a brand new product?
3) Is this a product in the physical world or in the Metaverse? (I know Meta has recently expanded in virtual fashion space with partnerships with designer brands)
4) Competition with other fashion products [Depop, Nuuly, Rent the Runway, Pickle, Poshmark, Instagram Shopping)
5) Are there any time constraints on when MVP should be launched?
6) What market"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions
Is it for a specific museum or any museum? To start with for a specific museum , we can expand to more museums
Which region? Lets say a museum in UK, US or Europe
any specific problem you want to solve? nothing specific
What is the objective or goal of the app? You can choose
Goal :
To enhance the experience of visiting the museum and increase footfall in the long run through word of mouth / referrals
Users :
Museum Visitors
Painpoints / Use Cases :-
1) For l"
Abhinav C. - "Clarifying Questions
Is it for a specific museum or any museum? To start with for a specific museum , we can expand to more museums
Which region? Lets say a museum in UK, US or Europe
any specific problem you want to solve? nothing specific
What is the objective or goal of the app? You can choose
Goal :
To enhance the experience of visiting the museum and increase footfall in the long run through word of mouth / referrals
Users :
Museum Visitors
Painpoints / Use Cases :-
1) For l"See full answer