Program Sense Interview Questions

Saket S. - "Clarifying questions: Are we trying to determine impact of changing timeline on Project? Assuming Project scenario. I need to take a 360 degree view and hence I would list down all the stakeholders and work with them to understand impact of changing timeline: Internal Stakeholders Business: Does this change impact the revenue/profitability Engineering: Do we foresee any technological risks due to change in timeline Sales: Does this impact our sales forecast Marketing:"See full answer

Saurabh N. - "1) Have a common goal 2) Have a clear and fair accountability between teams 3) Ensure conflicts are resolved in time on common issues 4) Promote common Brain-storming , problem solving sessions 5) Most important , Have clear and effective communication established and practised"See full answer

Pradeep S. - "Communication to stakeholders and replan with the early delay identified and also ensure the root cause is done as to why delay has happened."See full answer

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

Rev - "Clarify: Are we talking about the in stream auto video ads played? How is negative feedback affecting the metrics? Decrease in watch time? Other metrics affected? Since when are we observing the -ve feedback? What threshold were we fine with for -ve feedback? Is it observed across any particular geography, OS, device type? More details on what the -ve feedback says? Are we sure there are no technical issues/ systemic issues causing this, and it is indeed the auto play of ads"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

Amit G. - "web- https://smarsjewelry.com/jewellery/buy-kada-online/ . One reason to buy Kada online from a trusted source is that you can be assured of the quality of the product. Trusted sources have a reputation to uphold, and they won’t offer products that are of poor quality."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

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

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

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