Analytical Interview Questions

Anuradha T. - "average time spent attending event, number of sign up for the event, attendees/signups"See full answer

Nikitha G. - "Clarify: What is a transaction in Instagram Shops? Users click on an item and complete the payment in the Instagram Shops interface How many transactions happen in Instagram shop per day/month? What percentage of users have completed at least 1 transaction on Instagram Shops in the last year? Key Metric to improve: # Users completing a transaction Goals of the Product / Feature: Meta’s goal is to build community and connect people together Instagram’s goal is to connect and"See full answer

Karthik M. - "1. Step 1: clarify Let's establish the mission of Google and Youtube. Google's is to provide and make information more accessible. Youtube's might be to help people get their content, their word and themselves out into the world. I mean so many of Youtube's ads have been about how the diversity of individuals and their content, so that makes sense. Let's establish what is Youtube. Youtube has 3 primary stakeholders - creators, viewers and brands/corporations and within them"See full answer

Ankita K. - "Clarifying questions: What is user frustration/ Define user frustration? Was this qualitative feedback, or some reviews on playstore or support that we saw recently or some drop in metrics or increase in churn, or overall churn that we are addressing? Let's assume frustration leads to users quitting the app and hence an increase in churn. This churn also indicates that users leaving the app after trying out a particular feature and not doing the core action of seeing the route from point A to p"See full answer

Kell K. - "This by far has been the best interview I've seen so far, granted I've watched 15 mock interviews. Great Job!"See full answer

Anonymous Ferret - "i do feel like the question itself is kind of confusing. Youtube does have a product called YouTube’s Analytics, which is a channel analytics tool for creator lol"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question to make sure that I'm analyzing the right feature - is this the notification bell that is in the Facebook app and site? (assume Yes) Tapping on it opens a drop-down that captures items and activities that the user should be aware of? (Yes) Ok, I believe I'm clear on which feature you're referring to. My approach: Customer problem and value proposition Meta's mission and north star metric Customer journey and notification bell use case Success metrics on value del"See full answer

Hayatu H. - "Best practices for prioritizing customer service requests Prioritizing support requests is a key part of creating a customer journey optimized for maximum revenue. If you want to start using a ticket prioritization process that will boost both customer satisfaction and your bottom line, we've got nine proven best practices below: Respond to your most loyal customers first Tag repeat customers as high-priority tickets Automate simple requests wherever possible Mark tickets with urg"See full answer

Raoul S. - "Total number of successful conversations (Weekly). Success measured by sharing AI output or success indicators (e.g. Like)"See full answer

Sahil A. - "Clarify: Zoom for business - we are referring to Zoom meetings for enterprise customers Are there any specific features or goals we want to track. Assumption - We are at overall zoom business for enterprise customers Is there any particular geography or demographics we want to look at - Assumption - we are looking at across the globe Goals: Zoom allows users to conduct meetings internally and externally with folks across the organization. Enterprise customers access Zoom with their cor"See full answer

Patrick B. - "Clarify what the business goals of Spotify is Depending on the stage, some companies care more about revenue growth, some about user growth and in rarer cases, about profit margins. In the case of Spotify, the company is still in growth stage so I will make some assumptions that user growth is the most important, followed by monetization. Plus, margin is relatively fixed due to the contracts with recording labels Recently, Spotify has invested heavily in podcast with goa"See full answer

Prashasti S. - "Looking forward for the answers. My idea is to improve demand mechanics"See full answer

Aditya S. - "From Product Management perspective: I would first start with some clarifying questions. Is this algorithm to be used across Play Store for all kinds of apps or for some specific catgeory of apps What is the major objective. Are you entering a new market and hence objective is to capture market OR already in an existing market and want to maximise profit (since Google, most likely second objective) I would like to experiment with algorithms and see results before finalising. This will nee"See full answer

Patrick B. - "Clarifying How does autoplay work? I presume it's how it's done today (no audio, start playing once the video is scrolled to be completely in the user's screen) Desktop or mobile? Which market is this? Users in US / Western Europe vs developing markets have different behaviors Goals & Metrics FB's mission is to help people build deeper connections. As a news feed PM, the goal is to make sure FB news feed is valuable to the users by being a great way to keep in touch with"See full answer

XYZ - "We have observed that DAU have been declining, while MAU has remained constant. Activity is define as: Logging in. Viewing content. Posting content. Interacting with other users (likes, comments, etc.). Daily Active Users (DAU): This measures the number of unique users who engage with Instagram on a daily basis. It indicates how frequently users interact with the platform and reflects its daily stickiness. Monthly Active Users (MAU): This measures the number of unique users who en"See full answer

Simran M. - "To answer why Spotify introduced Podcasts, I would like to use 3C framework- Customer, Competitors and Company. Customers We have seen Spotify has a high WAU. This means users are engaged to the platform for music. Listeners need some new trend to listen to while going to the gym for example, or being stuck in a traffic. Sense of listening to something productive is what users need these days. Podcasts are lesser commitment than audiobooks because of short episode length"See full answer

Anonymous Aardvark - "QUESTION: Imagine that you are a PM that owns the post booking experience at Airbnb.How would you solve for the worst post-booking experience? Follow-up questions: Specific business goal in mind? (no) What is my scope? Do I own all post booking across product category? Or is there a specific product that I am focussing on (events, homes, specific home duration)? (you chose) Am I focussing on the user - renter or event goer? Or the creator - host or event creator? (your choice) Do yo"See full answer