Interview Questions

Coach - "Great question Evan, could you please help me with some context. Do you want me to consider Gsuite & Gmail on consumer or limit it to one or the other segment? Limit to B2C on GMAIL Promotions/ Notifications do you want me to include them? Exclude Would you want to consider only Gmail ecosystem or Gmail to All types of users? Any email recipient I would like to start with US as a geo and extrapolate would you be good with that? That's ok. That helps, than"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying Questions How do we define restaurants? Do only delivery/ pick up outlets qualify? : No. Consider only places where people can sit and eat Do restaurants within hotels count? : No Should I include cafes too? : Yes Can I assume the year to be 2024?: Yes Are we looking at specific areas within Bangalore or entire city ? : Entire city Here's how I will approach this question. I will divide Bangalore into places with High, medium and low population density. This is a relat"See full answer

Dee - "Clarify the question: Is this team for a specific part of JPMC or all of JPMC? Did we already have a DevOps team and we want to introduce the element of security? Steps to build a solution: 1: Define the company and team goals 2: Define the landscape What is the toolchain we want to use? What should the CI/CD lifecycle look like? 3: Define guiding principles for internal builds and third-party software/services which could include: Deployment frequency Traceability/observa"See full answer

Krish M. - "Situation: I led a critical initiative to re-architect the high volume customer data platform. The system handled over 90 PB of records handling around 70 billion customer records daily and was foundational to customer data capabilities across multiple enterprise products. The existing architecture faced significant challenges around latency, accuracy, and scalability, and any disruption would directly impact global customers and downstream systems. Task: I was responsible for leading t"See full answer

Praveen - "First, I would like to discuss and align what is meaningful social interaction. Given facebook's mission to empower users to build communities and get people closer, it is important that users have "meaningful social interaction" The goal of defining this metric is to use this as a north star or success metric around any efforts to increase engagement. It can also help with ads targeting/monetization by showing ads only during deeper interactions and hence might get better yield. Given faceb"See full answer

Sam T. - "demonstrate your ability to recognize and nurture talent, provide growth opportunities, and create an environment that supports and challenges high-performing individuals. Use a real-life example to illustrate your approach and showcase your leadership skills. Managing high performers is an exciting and rewarding aspect of being an engineering manager. These individuals are often the driving force behind innovation, productivity, and success within a team. As a manager, it's crucial to recogni"See full answer

Akshay J. - "Started by asking clarification questions regarding design constraints and desired features. Break down the into re-usable components - HeroImg and Carousel (with 3 images rendered) Code the components and managed the state for both in the parent component."See full answer

A R. - "I liked the role of a TPM due to the opportunity to contribute to the multiple dimensions of software product development. As a TPM I need to collaborate with multiple teams like Engineering, Product, and other business functions, but I also get the opportunity to contribute to the technical aspects of the program/project. I can use my sharp analytical skills to identify/anticipate problems, and leverage my problem solving skills to unblock the teams. I orchestrate multiple teams effort to del"See full answer

Chirashree G. - "Problem statement ; Traffic congestion is defined by what? Vehicles remaining stationary after X mins of time, inability to move forward . This impacts thus on the productivity times / turnaround times of vehicles etc, Due to inaccurate traffic handling management systems , people end up missing their meeting deadlines, ambulances dont reach on time resulting in severe health issues, missing up customer deadlines by sales professionals for a demo. Why is there a traffic congestion?? Users: Its"See full answer

Krishan K. - "If I could only talk to one customer of my product, I will pick that customer who was earlier a loyal user of my product but now engaging less or have left the product recently. As a PM, two most important metrics that show that your product is worthy for your users are retention & monetisation. If I am seeing a Loyal user not engaging any more with my platform, it shows that either that user has found 10X better substitute to satisfy the same need or that user is not liking my platform any mor"See full answer

P K. - "Redefining the question as: How will you solve the problem of misinformation on FB? Clarifying questions: Are we talking about building a product? (Up to you) What exactly is misinformation? (Fake news, inaccurate facts being shared on social media) Goal: Reduce the amount of misinformation spread on the platform and improve user trust. Key users associated with misinformation: News Accounts (eg CNN) - They may get involved in some controversy about a fake photoshopped artic"See full answer

Kusheta K. - "In one of my projects, l analyzed customer purchase data for a retail company to under why sales were decrease"See full answer

Mc L. - "I believe human emotions can't be judged by number and hence I have always made mistakes while judging the outcome of a reaction by data."See full answer

Satish murthy D. - "The audio is bad, and the answer is not helpful. The answer addresses deprecating a product/Sunset a product instead of sunsetting a project. I would request the exponent to kindly re-address the question. My take on the question is based on past experience. Successful project closing: Investigate to make sure the project is over : ( Check List)- Review scope statement & Objective SMART metrics fulfilled? All tasks finished? Any defects"See full answer

Sumit P. - "CQs: Help? → any sort of help Customer support? On App guidance? Help for creators?developers? → no Currently it is FAQ based, predefined app guide for the new users, customer support for critical cases Any specific problem came out in research or want me to brainstorm → brainstorm Improve what? → CSAT - lagging metric, should not be only goal Time spent in on app help → key goal is reduce this No constraints Geo - US Users E"See full answer

Farhan I. - "What software is being used to draw the design?"See full answer