Program Sense Interview Questions

Adib M. - "Ask if the quality aspect is negotiable? Clearly hoping it is not. Then move on to explain nicely about the iron triangle - scope, time, resources. With scope and resources fixed, the time would need to be variable unless the project is considered cookie cutter, the exact project has been done many times in the past. (which is unlikely). If time cannot be relaxed, then the scope should be variable."See full answer

Atharva P. - "Problem: Facebook Jobs has seen a 20% increase in job listings, but employer response time to applicants has decreased by 20%. Goal: Investigate and address the decrease in employer response time. Assumptions and Clarifying Questions: Scope: Is this issue internal to Facebook or affecting external users? Timeline: Analyzing data from the past 6 months is assumed to be sufficient. Response Time Definition: Clarify the precise definition of "response time" (e.g."See full answer

Y C. - "Clarifying questions Financial savviness is it related means Digital wallet Prudent Spending habits Intuitive savings Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful Geographical or any other constraint Product goal - This is in total alignment with Google's mission as it is trying to provide the consumers their financial information and making it useful. Engagement User personas Students Millennials Professionals -"See full answer

Raj M. - "Never a straight-forward answer. Assuming that this is a company goal to increase ad revenues from Chrome, try and understand the reason for the negative feedback. Is it a systematic issue (ads generally do lower overall user experience) or a specific issue (quality of ads, technical issues)? If the latter, fix that and run the experiment again. If former, how does this compare to user experience for other products with or without ads (YT vs YT premium)? If it above benchmarks, then pause. If in"See full answer

Peter H. - "Google Glass, first released in 2014, failed spectacularly due to its well-publicized issues around privacy concerns. Few will forget the term 'glassholes' for those who use Google Glass ability to record everyday life, potentially without any permission from those being recorded. However, Augmented Reality is now much closer to the public imagination. Augmented reality will go through many iterations. Important for user acceptance is that the glasses look and feel just like normal glasses. Th"See full answer

Grishma W. - "Generally would depend on the type of projects that are assigned to the team, but mostly 2 Front end developers, 3 backend developers & 2 testers"See full answer

Hillary N. - "I needed to gain insight into the reasons why customers were retained by Upsie. I decided to use key driver analysis to see what I could learn about the factors motivating customer loyalty. I conducted a survey with these questions: How likely would you be to recommend Upsie on a scale of 1-10? How satisfied are you with Upsie's warranty price on a scale of 1-10? How satisfied are you with Upsie's warranty coverage on a scale of 1-10? How satisfied are you with Upsie's warranty cla"See full answer

Anonymous Dingo - "Project plan --> Define the project scope, timeline, resources, risks and stakeholders. Define the project scope and objectives Identify the business problems the project aims to solve. Align on goals, deliverables and success criteria. Document in-scope and out-of-scope items. Identify Stakeholders Develop the work breakdown structure Break the project into manageable tasks and milestones. Define dependencies. Decide the project management met"See full answer

Sanchit G. - "Vision of Amazon: One stop place for users' buying needs - products and services. Goal of Amazon: Increase wallet share of users or engagement from users. Why services: Services would help achieving this goal, as the users would love using services. And Users need a platform to access services. Market in consideration: India (it is big enough. I am more familiar with this market) Current market landscape: Competition: A couple of marketplaces for services. Similar"See full answer

Esther S. - "Generally during the planning phase, I work with various teams to identify milestones and high level target date based on affinity sizing of the work. Based on that, I build a roadmap and if there are unforeseen issues/risks that may impact our target date, I flag it as a risk. For instance, if the teams are working on a project and there's an issue where a team states they need to extend out their target date and that impacts a dependent team, this will surely change the deliverable date for th"See full answer

Anonymous Crab - "Clarification questions : What do we mean by International - not home country(or US) , 1st International launch ? What is the product, physical / digital / service ? - Assuming Linkedin Can we test it - what is the cost of testing it - Assuming Linkedin , so we can test the market with a soft launch , ads before a full blown launch other parameters to consider - Target market & customers Attractiveness of market Underserved needs - early mass/ signs of demand gen - are there local pr"See full answer

Agni W. - "Interesting questions. Thank you for asking it. S: Suppose I want to add notifications service to an app that provides user directed content, that is is dependent on user's past preferences T: if you ask me for a prototype, then I would use API gateway/ LB, Lambda, storage in SQL and No SQL both, have caches. later we could use CDN, have EC2 instances to run the app. We could deploy Kafka pipeline also. Create notification service on the existing app. - that will be a micro service A: Since"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification about the Google Web Answers, its goal, and vision for the next 4-5 years. Talk about the different user personas and the actions which they should take to achieve that vision. Finally replicating these actions and corresponding actions into metrics. Evaluate the different action if we there are any negative recursion about these metrics"See full answer

1rn19ec058 P. - "a 3 year project can broken down into several sprints which includes the core functionalities as well as the customer excitement features like design, aesthetics and smoothness of the transitioning of different features, while handling a 3 week project we must first priortise what features needs to be included and what features can be delayed and what impact the feature that needs to be included derive and but one common thing that would be included while handling both the projects would be thor"See full answer

Surbhi G. - "I would start by understanding the project requirements and creating a detailed plan with clear milestones. I’d allocate resources effectively and use project management tools to track progress. Following an iterative development approach, I’d ensure regular testing and reviews. Finally, I’d deploy the solution, provide support, and gather feedback to make any necessary improvements." 4o mini"See full answer