"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"
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
"Clarify question:
Google flight search: flights.google.com (app or website)
Allows users to search for flights, sort, or filter
To book, you are directed to airline or aggregator sites
Vision of the product: Help users find and compare flights they want to take
Users:
Flyers (primary user)
Airlines and aggregator sites (prices, avail, options)
Flight inventory providers
Success metrics:
Number of users/flyers like DAUs or MAUs
% flyers (DAUs or MAUs) which are repeat
Success"
Dolores - "Clarify question:
Google flight search: flights.google.com (app or website)
Allows users to search for flights, sort, or filter
To book, you are directed to airline or aggregator sites
Vision of the product: Help users find and compare flights they want to take
Users:
Flyers (primary user)
Airlines and aggregator sites (prices, avail, options)
Flight inventory providers
Success metrics:
Number of users/flyers like DAUs or MAUs
% flyers (DAUs or MAUs) which are repeat
Success"See full answer
"Discussed:
Requirements of the system:
latency
language
modality (assume keyboard typing)
availability of data (assume cold start)
success metric (accuracy of next word predicted?, or minimize false positives? -> accuracy to start)
Data collection and processing:
design ethical user experiments to collect typed out data
design a simple tokenization strategy (word level encoding, character level encoding, byte-pair encodings, and discuss tradeoffs)
collect data, and split"
Adam L. - "Discussed:
Requirements of the system:
latency
language
modality (assume keyboard typing)
availability of data (assume cold start)
success metric (accuracy of next word predicted?, or minimize false positives? -> accuracy to start)
Data collection and processing:
design ethical user experiments to collect typed out data
design a simple tokenization strategy (word level encoding, character level encoding, byte-pair encodings, and discuss tradeoffs)
collect data, and split"See full answer
Machine Learning Engineer
System Design
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"To build a product using Generative AI (Gen AI), the process would involve multiple steps, from conceptualization to deployment. Here's a structured approach :
1. Identify the Problem or Opportunity
Start with the need or opportunity: What problem do you want to solve? Is it to automate tasks, generate content, enhance creativity, or improve user experience?
Example products:A content creation tool that generates blog posts or articles.
A personalized customer support chatbot"
Maulik S. - "To build a product using Generative AI (Gen AI), the process would involve multiple steps, from conceptualization to deployment. Here's a structured approach :
1. Identify the Problem or Opportunity
Start with the need or opportunity: What problem do you want to solve? Is it to automate tasks, generate content, enhance creativity, or improve user experience?
Example products:A content creation tool that generates blog posts or articles.
A personalized customer support chatbot"See full answer
"Answering only estimation portion for practice (for some reason after submitting the formatting is unorganized)
clarification and assumptions
can I assume this grocery store location is called Greens
can I assume that self-checkout means that customers checks out without assistance?
can I assume that cashier checkout means that cashier assists customers with checkout?
can I assume that ratio means how man self-checkouts should be place at this grocery store compare"
Ama M. - "Answering only estimation portion for practice (for some reason after submitting the formatting is unorganized)
clarification and assumptions
can I assume this grocery store location is called Greens
can I assume that self-checkout means that customers checks out without assistance?
can I assume that cashier checkout means that cashier assists customers with checkout?
can I assume that ratio means how man self-checkouts should be place at this grocery store compare"See full answer
"I believe these are the traits of a great PM. I see PM to be somone who is a great manager of customer problems and for that he/she has to be:
Be an expert at the one domain and know the customer of the product in that domain and curate experiences for them better than the competition.
Be persuasive - Get things done by convincing rather than commanding.
Learn how great products are by being an engineer.
Be a fearless leader by championing teams ideas all the way to the management la"
Siddharth P. - "I believe these are the traits of a great PM. I see PM to be somone who is a great manager of customer problems and for that he/she has to be:
Be an expert at the one domain and know the customer of the product in that domain and curate experiences for them better than the competition.
Be persuasive - Get things done by convincing rather than commanding.
Learn how great products are by being an engineer.
Be a fearless leader by championing teams ideas all the way to the management la"See full answer
"I would think about the following
Inventory make up
Localization for Quebec
Device type distribution
Price comparison algorithm is tuned correctly
Dealer’s ability to merchandise their products
The answer is thinking through all these potential issues with the car buyer funnel to identify why potential buyers in Canada are converting at a lower rate.
"
Brad G. - "I would think about the following
Inventory make up
Localization for Quebec
Device type distribution
Price comparison algorithm is tuned correctly
Dealer’s ability to merchandise their products
The answer is thinking through all these potential issues with the car buyer funnel to identify why potential buyers in Canada are converting at a lower rate.
"See full answer
"Functional Requirement
User should be able to add review the food item/order
User should be able to rate the food item delivered
User should be able to Like/Dislike others reviews
User should be able to see all reviews on a food item
Users should be able to receive rewards based on criteria- (Quality of the reviews- Based on number of likes - Monthly cash card)
OOS - Item is already ordered and exists in a separate system, User is authenticated. No Media
Non Functional requireme"
Anshika R. - "Functional Requirement
User should be able to add review the food item/order
User should be able to rate the food item delivered
User should be able to Like/Dislike others reviews
User should be able to see all reviews on a food item
Users should be able to receive rewards based on criteria- (Quality of the reviews- Based on number of likes - Monthly cash card)
OOS - Item is already ordered and exists in a separate system, User is authenticated. No Media
Non Functional requireme"See full answer
"DFD, data flow diagram or Information flow diagram helps a business user clearly understand technical concepts as it links use cases with technical concepts.
While feature document along with user stories (with acceptance criteria) works best for technical user to understand business concepts."
Bhuvan D. - "DFD, data flow diagram or Information flow diagram helps a business user clearly understand technical concepts as it links use cases with technical concepts.
While feature document along with user stories (with acceptance criteria) works best for technical user to understand business concepts."See full answer
"Clarifying question: normally when we say design for , we mean the same product with features for the user segment. Here, is it okay to assume the meaning to be design a product from Netflix for dogs?
Assumption: yes.
Reason for assumption: an OTT app in its current form with movies and web series is not very suitable to dogs.
We will start by analysing who the stakeholders are in the users.
Dogs
Pet owners
Shelter workers.
We will now explore some of t"
Upasana S. - "Clarifying question: normally when we say design for , we mean the same product with features for the user segment. Here, is it okay to assume the meaning to be design a product from Netflix for dogs?
Assumption: yes.
Reason for assumption: an OTT app in its current form with movies and web series is not very suitable to dogs.
We will start by analysing who the stakeholders are in the users.
Dogs
Pet owners
Shelter workers.
We will now explore some of t"See full answer
"This is a very interesting question. First, I would like to ask a few clarifying questions about the premise, as I am not a bird expert! (pause for polite chuckle.)
For the purposes of this question, I am going to assume some priors about you mean when you say "survival" and "adaptation". If we are discussing these in the evolutionary sense, it's very difficult to understand the time scale and actual causality that would be needed to bring about any sort of assessment of how this one aspect of"
Tyler V. - "This is a very interesting question. First, I would like to ask a few clarifying questions about the premise, as I am not a bird expert! (pause for polite chuckle.)
For the purposes of this question, I am going to assume some priors about you mean when you say "survival" and "adaptation". If we are discussing these in the evolutionary sense, it's very difficult to understand the time scale and actual causality that would be needed to bring about any sort of assessment of how this one aspect of"See full answer
"CQs
Is 10x capacity any specific time or in general
Any time of the day , store should be able to handle
To confirm, Grocery store objective is to sell day to day grocery and vegetables? Or do we want to include any other products
Day to day grocery
Why is the foot traffic more than 10x the typical cap. Was the store designed poorly or did the store not predict the foot traffic correctly ?
We suddenly become local's favorite
We want to design this single store to handle 10X capacity an"
Abhi S. - "CQs
Is 10x capacity any specific time or in general
Any time of the day , store should be able to handle
To confirm, Grocery store objective is to sell day to day grocery and vegetables? Or do we want to include any other products
Day to day grocery
Why is the foot traffic more than 10x the typical cap. Was the store designed poorly or did the store not predict the foot traffic correctly ?
We suddenly become local's favorite
We want to design this single store to handle 10X capacity an"See full answer