"Great. I'm going to get started by asking clarification questions for (1) understanding of the gap by assessing current product features for bookings via platform?, (2) brainstorming possible solutions, (3) how to implement solutions, and (4) suggesting metrics to validate solutions towards an increase of bookings
Clarification questions & Assumptions:
What is customer segment (family/ group/ individual)? In which market? (individual & US market)
Should I specifically focus on one of use ca"
Anna H. - "Great. I'm going to get started by asking clarification questions for (1) understanding of the gap by assessing current product features for bookings via platform?, (2) brainstorming possible solutions, (3) how to implement solutions, and (4) suggesting metrics to validate solutions towards an increase of bookings
Clarification questions & Assumptions:
What is customer segment (family/ group/ individual)? In which market? (individual & US market)
Should I specifically focus on one of use ca"See full answer
"Start with FB vision
What are local awareness ad. Ad content that is shown to people when they are in proximity to a brick and mortal stores.
Why did fb start local awareness ads. They are very effective in helping businesses acquire customers, or create top of mind recall. Drive business revenue and visibility. Helps FB monetize and enables users discover local businesses.
Goal – [secondary] is to ensure that we build visibility for the businesses. [Primary ] Customer engagement. engage the c"
Neha A. - "Start with FB vision
What are local awareness ad. Ad content that is shown to people when they are in proximity to a brick and mortal stores.
Why did fb start local awareness ads. They are very effective in helping businesses acquire customers, or create top of mind recall. Drive business revenue and visibility. Helps FB monetize and enables users discover local businesses.
Goal – [secondary] is to ensure that we build visibility for the businesses. [Primary ] Customer engagement. engage the c"See full answer
"Should be able to charge the airpod case when pluged into energy.
Should be able to charge when the airpod case has battery.
Should be able to alert if the airpod case is out of battery.
Should be able to sync with non-paired devices.
Should be able to sync automatically with paired devices.
Should be able to sync automatically with paired devices that are closer to the airpod.
Should be able to switch the connection to a device answering a call.
Should be able to pause during us"
Daniel M. - "Should be able to charge the airpod case when pluged into energy.
Should be able to charge when the airpod case has battery.
Should be able to alert if the airpod case is out of battery.
Should be able to sync with non-paired devices.
Should be able to sync automatically with paired devices.
Should be able to sync automatically with paired devices that are closer to the airpod.
Should be able to switch the connection to a device answering a call.
Should be able to pause during us"See full answer
"Abstract class
A class that can have Abstract methods - without implementations and Concerete Methods i.e with implementation.
Can have private, protected and public access modifiers.
Supports Single inheritance i.e a class can extend only 1 abstract class
Can have constructors
Mainly used when sharing common behaviors
Interface Class
A collection of abstract methods ( can have static and default methods also - onwards of java 8)
Public, static, final are the access"
Sue G. - "Abstract class
A class that can have Abstract methods - without implementations and Concerete Methods i.e with implementation.
Can have private, protected and public access modifiers.
Supports Single inheritance i.e a class can extend only 1 abstract class
Can have constructors
Mainly used when sharing common behaviors
Interface Class
A collection of abstract methods ( can have static and default methods also - onwards of java 8)
Public, static, final are the access"See full answer
"goal of whatsapp: to connect people at no cost associated to it, over internet, with complete privacy and 100% encryption
clarify
improve means?
increase # of users
increase revenues?
increase # of countries its used in ?
increase features ?
who are the customer personas of whatsapp:
students
working professionals
families
individuals
SMEs
current features of whatsapp :
communication: video/audio calls, messages
document sh"
Janakiram P. - "goal of whatsapp: to connect people at no cost associated to it, over internet, with complete privacy and 100% encryption
clarify
improve means?
increase # of users
increase revenues?
increase # of countries its used in ?
increase features ?
who are the customer personas of whatsapp:
students
working professionals
families
individuals
SMEs
current features of whatsapp :
communication: video/audio calls, messages
document sh"See full answer
Product Design
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"You can ask some clarifying questions like
1) Ask if the list is already sorted or not
2) is zero included in the list ?
3) Natural numbers are usually positive numbers ( clarify they are non negatives)
Solution :
1) If sorted use two pointers and sort them in O(N)
2) if not sorted , -ve / only +ve numbers in the list doesn't matter - the easiest solution is
Use a priority queue and push the number and its square in each iteration
Finally return the list returned by the priority Queue. N"
Bless M. - "You can ask some clarifying questions like
1) Ask if the list is already sorted or not
2) is zero included in the list ?
3) Natural numbers are usually positive numbers ( clarify they are non negatives)
Solution :
1) If sorted use two pointers and sort them in O(N)
2) if not sorted , -ve / only +ve numbers in the list doesn't matter - the easiest solution is
Use a priority queue and push the number and its square in each iteration
Finally return the list returned by the priority Queue. N"See full answer
"Clarifying question: Why would google want to sunset Youtube? What would the business objective be?
Based on how the interviewer responds this could go down multiple paths:
If they said just because, then I would address the current state data for the YouTube business.
Material benefits:
XX Million active users
$$ in Annual revenue
$$ in subscription revenue
$$ monetization through influencers
Non-material benefits that align to google core values:
Democracy on the web works"
Aditi N. - "Clarifying question: Why would google want to sunset Youtube? What would the business objective be?
Based on how the interviewer responds this could go down multiple paths:
If they said just because, then I would address the current state data for the YouTube business.
Material benefits:
XX Million active users
$$ in Annual revenue
$$ in subscription revenue
$$ monetization through influencers
Non-material benefits that align to google core values:
Democracy on the web works"See full answer
"Building data centers in outer space is a concept that has been talked about for a few years now. However, to my knowledge, no one has yet succeeded in building one. In order to simplify this case, I am going to only investigate putting Azure Disk Storage into the cloud. To determine if this is a viable scenario for Azure, I will examine why Azure may want to pursue building a data center in outer space, the technological feasibility, and finally, a potential market for this service.
Business D"
John F. - "Building data centers in outer space is a concept that has been talked about for a few years now. However, to my knowledge, no one has yet succeeded in building one. In order to simplify this case, I am going to only investigate putting Azure Disk Storage into the cloud. To determine if this is a viable scenario for Azure, I will examine why Azure may want to pursue building a data center in outer space, the technological feasibility, and finally, a potential market for this service.
Business D"See full answer
"A daily 10 minute cadence to make a note of the progress and the deliverables for the day, should help ascertain the delivery and to meet schedule the self performing teams need to be on toes to deliver. Time lines need to be revisited end of each day to evalute the impact."
Nilesh S. - "A daily 10 minute cadence to make a note of the progress and the deliverables for the day, should help ascertain the delivery and to meet schedule the self performing teams need to be on toes to deliver. Time lines need to be revisited end of each day to evalute the impact."See full answer
"Modernizing banking legacy systems and applications
The modernization process typically involves moving from mainframe-based legacy platforms to solutions based on cloud and other modern digital technologies"
Teja G. - "Modernizing banking legacy systems and applications
The modernization process typically involves moving from mainframe-based legacy platforms to solutions based on cloud and other modern digital technologies"See full answer
"Clarify:
Product: physical/ digital? - digital
chefs as a profession? what kind of restaurant setting do they work in?
speed up cooking why/ objective? - serve customers quickly? reduce their fatigue? help them spend time on other important activities?
what is cooking process - getting order - knowing recipe - executing - placing in dish - should I consider serving or that will be including in the waitor's job?
By how much do we want to speed up?
who are we?
any constraints?"
Rev - "Clarify:
Product: physical/ digital? - digital
chefs as a profession? what kind of restaurant setting do they work in?
speed up cooking why/ objective? - serve customers quickly? reduce their fatigue? help them spend time on other important activities?
what is cooking process - getting order - knowing recipe - executing - placing in dish - should I consider serving or that will be including in the waitor's job?
By how much do we want to speed up?
who are we?
any constraints?"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions
Who are we? Traditional elevator company or a new age tech startup
Assumption: New age tech based elevator company
Any constraints: Budget, etc. Assumption: No
What kind of a skyscraper building:
Assumption: Commercial. Includes office spaces as well as others
Any particular goal with respect to building this elevator? Design best in class elevator providing the best user experience for passengers
User needs - Users have the following needs when"
Shasleen I. - "Clarifying Questions
Who are we? Traditional elevator company or a new age tech startup
Assumption: New age tech based elevator company
Any constraints: Budget, etc. Assumption: No
What kind of a skyscraper building:
Assumption: Commercial. Includes office spaces as well as others
Any particular goal with respect to building this elevator? Design best in class elevator providing the best user experience for passengers
User needs - Users have the following needs when"See full answer
"Define the feature
A virtual card number is a temporary or disposable card number generated by your credit card issuer or financial institution. It is designed to protect your actual credit card information during online transactions. Its main purpose is the security of your actual credit card.
Clarification questions
No questions
What is the purpose of the feature?
Enhanced Security: Using a virtual card number protects your actual credit card details from being exposed to potentia"
Ekta M. - "Define the feature
A virtual card number is a temporary or disposable card number generated by your credit card issuer or financial institution. It is designed to protect your actual credit card information during online transactions. Its main purpose is the security of your actual credit card.
Clarification questions
No questions
What is the purpose of the feature?
Enhanced Security: Using a virtual card number protects your actual credit card details from being exposed to potentia"See full answer
"Clarification and Assumption
In house labeling vs outsourced? labeling text, images, bounding boxes, segmentations etc? what kind of issues have we observed?
Assuming that data collection and pre/post-processing is done by different team and labeling starts with receiving data and ends with sending files back to my team. "outsourced, images containing objects, 2 dozen classes of objects to label bounding boxes."
2.Goal
Quality is important because downstream effect. garbage in garbage out."
Rui B. - "Clarification and Assumption
In house labeling vs outsourced? labeling text, images, bounding boxes, segmentations etc? what kind of issues have we observed?
Assuming that data collection and pre/post-processing is done by different team and labeling starts with receiving data and ends with sending files back to my team. "outsourced, images containing objects, 2 dozen classes of objects to label bounding boxes."
2.Goal
Quality is important because downstream effect. garbage in garbage out."See full answer
"There are couple of reasons for it -
Kind of role : Its a product manager role loaded with analytical work, So working with data in stringent regulatory guideline make it more exciting and thrilling.
Location & industry is like - Cherry on the cake, Bangalore weather and BFI is at its all time peak as people spending behavior is changing continuously, it will be interesting to see big giants like visa are managing it."
Nidhi S. - "There are couple of reasons for it -
Kind of role : Its a product manager role loaded with analytical work, So working with data in stringent regulatory guideline make it more exciting and thrilling.
Location & industry is like - Cherry on the cake, Bangalore weather and BFI is at its all time peak as people spending behavior is changing continuously, it will be interesting to see big giants like visa are managing it."See full answer
"I first clarified what he needed for the leaderboard meaning did he need a gaming leaderboard system, a stock market leaderboard system where the trades placed would be ranked in terms of values or a coding platform leaderboard where the users are ranked as per the points earned by solving the problem?
He answered that he wanted a multipurpose leaderboard system
He was specifically interested in the design of the api part
Explained him that assuming we had a flask api there would be a get re"
GalacticInterviewer - "I first clarified what he needed for the leaderboard meaning did he need a gaming leaderboard system, a stock market leaderboard system where the trades placed would be ranked in terms of values or a coding platform leaderboard where the users are ranked as per the points earned by solving the problem?
He answered that he wanted a multipurpose leaderboard system
He was specifically interested in the design of the api part
Explained him that assuming we had a flask api there would be a get re"See full answer