Interview Questions

Anonymous Cheetah - "First profile the URL/Webpage to see which components are limiting/blocking the loading of Web page. Based on the observation, identify if it is the latency, server, network or the sheer number of elements that make up the page. Accordingly plan the optimization strategy."See full answer

Kanishkan V. - "I responded with a project that I was a part of during my capstone class. I described how I used HTML, Python, and PostGRESQL in conjunction to create a functioning website using SCRUM."See full answer

Nithesh S. - "Before getting into the solution aspect, let us revisit Amazon's mission. Mission: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Participants: Therefore any improvement in the marketplace should be in sync with this thought process. Participants in the marketplace have both buyers and sellers. We can improve the platform either of them or both of them. **Wh"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Inspira Analytics, our intern team had worked for two weeks on a client presentation for a new data dashboard. Unfortunately, during the final review, the manager pointed out several major flaws in our analysis and asked us to redo the entire structure. The feedback was blunt, and the team felt discouraged, questioning whether our efforts were even valued. As the informal team lead, I felt responsible for helping lift the team’s morale and refocus everyone so we could del"See full answer

Faraz A. - "Scoped out problem constraints - how much data to download, how many computers, and how much time, how you can be detected (decentralized load). Designed a web crawler."See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Q: How do we know that they spend too much time in the app? A: User research/Qualitative survey goal: decrease dissatisfaction that they spend too much time in IG Persona's, lets segment based on usage: New users: just signed up and getting the hang of it lurkers: don't post or engage, just follow contributors: post occasionally (stories + posts) super users/micro influencers: post daily, engage with commenters, spend a lot of time in discover tab IG mission statement is to capture and s"See full answer

Kavya C. - "MTBF is Mean time between failures. This is measured to figure out how reliable a system is by what is the gap between 2 failures. (Total time elapsed- Down time)/No of failures"See full answer

Michelle D. - "I'd first start with confirming my understanding with the interviewer of Spotify's key metric overall. For this exercise, my working assumption of Spotify's north star is time spent listening (TSL, for short), which can be measured daily, weekly, and monthly. As the PM for Discover Weekly, I want to improve Discover Weekly such that I positively impact TSL. As such, my goal is to increase minutes spent listening to Discover Weekly playlists. The primary metric I will want to track is minutes s"See full answer

Rahul R. - "I would first call out the two types of Google Doodles that are published. First would be the static doodle which just shows a picture, and users can get more information on it by hovering on it or clicking on it. Second would be the dynamic google doodles which are either short videos or games through which users engage a bit more. My top 3 metrics that covers both would be: Click-through rate and post-click CTR - Although different metrics, I clubbed them since they fall under similar"See full answer

Anonymous Mastodon - "WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO CUSTOMER VALUE TO THE CUSTOMER IMPACT ON THE CUSTOMER PRIORITIZE BASED ON THAT the sales team wants Specific changes to customer - Value NPV etc Client services want automation - Customer priority "See full answer

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

Sathi C. - "Being a team player is very important to a small to medium team where each individual play a role to set the culture of collaboration for the team. I will definitely be coaching my report to improve on becoming a team player and trying to influence to understand why it is utterly important for her/his individual growth and success. A ship can not be built by only two hands and any disconnect within the team can prove to be costly."See full answer

Rolemberg J. - "I faced a problem about components re-rendering's and unnecessary requests API's which was causing performance complications in my applicactions. I had a structure that create, edit and delete task, so GET, POST, PUT and DELETE API's methods request was necessary and bring that to compliance without compromissing the performance is hard. I started involving componentes and async functions into the useMemo's and useEffect's to have more control, another improvement was take be careful with global"See full answer

Berk C. - "High Level Architect Client v API Gateway v Object Storage v Message Queue v Worker v Database Client should can document with a web site or directly with API services. API Gateway should be used for upload document,get document info and state. Object storage should be used for original document and send event to Message Queue for starting. Message Queue is neccessary because there are millions of document should be process each time. Worker can get text from document with OCR. Database shoul"See full answer

Navin T. - "Clarification Questions : Do all 10000 persons need Email access, or is 10000 people the colony's size? : Yes, 10000 people will use emails. As I am a PM for Gmail, I assume we are focusing just on email as a form of communication: Yes. Are there any requirements on the size of attachments allowable in the emails? : I will leave it up to you. Understand the user behavior -> Identify key metrics -> Make quantitative estimation -> Understand plans -> Propose network bandwidth. User b"See full answer

Shahrukh K. - "During my initial days as a Product Manager, I faced challenges working with our central design team. The team received requests from multiple Product Managers, and prioritization was often influenced by the rapport each PM had built with them. Since I was new, I struggled to convey the importance of my tasks effectively, leading to delays in my projects. This was a significant learning moment for me. I realized that to succeed, I needed to earn the trust of the design team and demonstra"See full answer

Dev S. - "Clarfying questions : When we say a decrease in users adding the bank accounts. I would like to understand how the users making payments within Venmo I assume they are either using their credit cards/debit cards? I would like to understand why the Adding of Bank Accounts is integral to Venmo since the users are using the debit card and Credit Cards. My understanding is when the payments happen through debit cards rails Venmo pays higher interchange fees and to Reduces any losses incurred"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification Questions Understanding of Netflix -> clarification Clarification regarding the meaning of logged into the platform -> not coming back or they are logged out From how long they we been seeing this issue and is this issue gradual? Which demography or geography are we talking about? The metrics which we are tracking are actually working or not? Internal Factors Any infrastructure problem, frequently "App not responding" or frequently auto log out? Any pa"See full answer