Interview Questions

Amparo L. - "Some coworkers say to me that I'm a hard worker, but some say that I can be a little loud while I'm working, So then when I get that feedback I would say I'm sorry that you felt that way and I will promise I will work on it."See full answer

San S. - "How might the system design change if it is limited specifically to a web/mobile use case?"See full answer

A G. - "Clarification Qs: What does "split" mean here? - split the UI and if so how (through tabs?) What counts as "media" - clarified already What is prompting us to consider this change? - any negative feedback from the users/ decrease in certain Newsfeed metrics like engagement etc/ any particular business goal? is this across or platforms eg desktop/mobile ? Is this for all regions? Mission of FB: Fb's mission is to bring people closer together by enabling them to build communiti"See full answer

Suhasan C. - "I'm going to structure my answer like this so it is easy for both of us to follow up and grasp them easily. Let's first clear out some of the grey areas and make them black and white. Also, decide what are in-scope and out of scope. Second, let's understand what is our goal for improvement - is it the customer experience or any specific feature in mind? for a group of users? Third, I will brainstorm what are the pain points for user personas and solutions to improve them. Fourth, I will priorit"See full answer

Clayton P. - "The interviewer hinted that a two-tower recommender system might be a suitable approach, using user history to embed users and pages separately and train on view or interaction data. Instead, I proposed a different approach that I felt was more aligned with how knowledge is structured in Confluence: I designed a system using a graph database to model the relationships between Confluence pages. Each page is a node, and edges represent content-based references. For example, when one article"See full answer

Manish M. - " Here is a sample response from FANG PM Assistant in ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Z8yp2xrzt-fang-pm-interview-assistant 1. \\Product Goals\\ Primary Goal: Enhance user engagement by providing a highly personalized and intuitive experience. Secondary Goals: Increase transaction volume, expand user base, and promote financial products tailored to user needs. 2. \\User Personas\\ Urban Professionals: Frequent users of digital payments, interested in invest"See full answer

Takashi M. - "First of all, I’d like to identify what is Google’s business model and Google’s presence in the emerging market. I can categorize 3 main buckets. Consumer, developer, enterprise business. Google mainly offers a free Android OS platform and several services; such as Gmail, Google Map, Youtube, and Search engine for consumers business. The consumer can use those free services in exchange for providing data. That is the main hook for the ads revenues. For the developer’s segment, Google provides"See full answer

Saurabh G. - "Picked Turo, prioritized customer (renter) persona, listed a few paint points across three pillars - Tool, Car Owner, Car Worst Case scenarios Order did not go through, no order confirmation received Notification issue with tool Owner not replying Owner did not deliver car as expected - delayed or no show 5 Issues with car - not clean, not as promised, dirty, engine isssues Car breakdown after pickup Payment issues Fraud I picked up no show as an issue which could b"See full answer

Chethan N. - "Build a counter using queue, one queue per service ("a", "b") and one with just timestamps to get the overall load. Build rate limiter service using the counter and interviewer asked if there rate limiter might use a different instance of a counter"See full answer

Imju B. - "Wondering what is the difference between OKR based and Roadmap based. I feel it is based on the time horizon."See full answer

Ushita S. - "The back-of-the-envelope calculation is very well done!"See full answer

Stanislav I. - "First, take a BIG short position in Tesla stocks!"See full answer

Mrigang S. - "Starting with Clarifications Before jumping in, a few things I'd want to nail down: What are we actually optimizing for here — is it Retention, Engagement, or something like Average Order Value? Are we talking about the app or the website? Any specific geography in mind? For this answer, I'm going to assume we're focused on improving Retention and Engagement on the mobile app in India. That's where I think the most interesting problem space lives. The User Journey I'm Working Wi"See full answer

Kartik D. - "Clarifying Questions: What age range are we looking at between 13-19? Any specific range we need to target? - Assume all teens Any demography we would target? - Worldwide Do they have access to phones/laptops or do we need to build an offline product? - Assume they have access to phones and laptops Are there any constraints around privacy or content moderation? - Yes What platform (Facebook core, Messenger, or another product) is this for? - Assume faceb"See full answer

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

Amparo L. - "One weakness of mine is reaching stuff through higher shelves but I'm able to use a step ladder to address the situation."See full answer