Interview Questions

Pranay N. - "Okay, so before we start discussing how to design this platform, I have a few questions I need details on. Clarification Questions: What do you mean by "Podcasting Platform"? Producing a platform and releasing it online takes several steps (Ideation, scripting, equipment selection, recording, editing, choosing a platform to release, etc.). Are we looking at any specific step here? - Free to Assume Am I PM at Google designing a Podcast Platform as a tool inside existing Google Pro"See full answer

stash - "To answer this question I am going to first clarify the product offering and what ti does, talk about the goals for IG reels for Facebook, go through user actions and then come up with some key metrics to measure success of the product based on the goals. Product Overview IG reel allows creators to build short-form video with a bunch of different editing features and post that to their followers or to the broader IG network. It allows regular IG users to create their own content and build"See full answer

Palak A. - "Designing a system to deny services to requests from banned IPs involves integrating real-time IP checking with your service architecture. Here’s a detailed outline of how you can design such a system: System Design Overview The goal is to ensure that your service can efficiently check incoming requests against a list of banned IPs and deny access when necessary. The system will leverage an external API, security.gov.x, to determine if an IP address is blocked or allowed. **Key Compone"See full answer

Ashish B. - "Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The increasing ability of machines to learn and act intelligently will absolutely transform our world. It is also the driving force behind many of the other trends on this list. The Internet of Things (IoT). This refers to the ever-growing number of “smart” devices and objects that are connected to the internet. Such devices are constantly gathering and transmitting data, further fueling the growth in Big Data and AI. **Blockchains and"See full answer

Sahil A. - "Clarifying questions: Open metrics - Number of times users open the google document on a given day 10% decline - is it a gradual decline or steep decline? (since when) Do we witness decline from a specific geography? Decline for consumers or enterprise customers? Decline from web or mobile app? Review logs or bug reports to check if there are customer issues reports Internal Determine if a particular release is causing the issue Review other metrics to check if fewer do"See full answer

Elly P. - "Answer generated using AI plugin: https://github.com/buildforward/product-sense-interview-answer Section 1 — Clarify (~2 min) Before I dive in, I'd like to ask a couple of clarifying questions to make sure I'm solving the right problem. What do we mean by "engaging"? Hashtags can drive discovery, community, creation, or interaction. I'll assume we're focused on making hashtags more engaging for content consumers — increasing the time people spend exploring and interacting with"See full answer

Manish M. - "Here is the sample answer from the Assistant at https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Z8yp2xrzt-fang-pm-interview-assistant As a Product Manager at Google, designing a product for air travelers involves leveraging Google's technological prowess and vast data resources. Here's a comprehensive approach: 1. \\Understanding Goals and Objectives\\ \\Primary Goal:\\ Enhance the travel experience for air travelers through seamless information access, personalized s"See full answer

Shubham S. - "Introduction UberSenior is a new service offered by Uber that provides safe, reliable, and convenient transportation for senior citizens. This PRD outlines the key features, functionalities, and user experience for both seniors and drivers using UberSenior. Problem Statement Existing transportation options for seniors often have limitations, including: Accessibility: Lack of vehicles equipped for mobility aids or physical limitations Technology barriers: Difficulty using smartphone"See full answer

Umang S. - "Scenario - I had joined a product in my current company as a PM midway through its development. It is a very sensitive product with a major public services company. As the product was close to its go-live date, it had to go through many checks and many signoffs. A couple of them were through data policy department and the platform department, of which we were using all of the components for our product. We needed policy sign off to authorise the use of data to understand user interactions and"See full answer

Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer

Yespm T. - "Clarifying question: When you say users, what specific metric are we talking about?  Answer: we want to increase # of daily active users.  Assume active users are logged in users. Is there a region that we have in mind for this increase? Assume no, we want to think about globally Is there a specific device (mobile vs desktop) ? Assume no Approach: I want to first think about Youtube, its mission and current business at a high level. . Then I want to think about the current ecos"See full answer

Javed S. - "One good reason for using the doubly linked list is that to remove an accessed item in the list from its existing position say in the middle of the list and move it to the head, you need to update the previous node's next pointer and the next node's previous pointer. A singly linked list only has next pointers, so removing from the middle would require traversing from the head to find the previous node which requires O(n) time. A doubly linked list allows O(1) removal from any position because w"See full answer

Kunal S. - "Clarifying questions: Are there any specific constraints that you want me to take in to account when thinking through this problem : [Interviewer] No Can i think through this in freeform or is there a specific goal we are trying to achieve : [Interviewer] I will let you decide the goal Strategic Analysis: Spotifyies mission is to - "Unlock the potential of human creativity – by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the o"See full answer

Sukriti C. - "Lyft at its core is a marketplace with drivers and cars on the supply side, and passengers on the demand side. I would begin by dividing the goal of the dashboard into two categories : Health of the marketplace Health of the app/ reliability from a technical perspective The second one is more straightforward so I’ll briefly mention some overarching metrics I would look at and come back to it later if time allows. Health or reliability of the app can be further divided into the following -"See full answer

Mayank M. - "Clarifying questions- Are we considering only the viewing + upload or all the services like ads, payouts etc? -- only streaming + uploads. Are we considering any specific platform like App, website or everything? --- All. Are we talking about just the tech part or should we consider the ops cost as well? ---consider everything. High level equation- Since we want to calculate the cost of running youtube for a day , we need to consider the following verticals- **Vide"See full answer

Alex N. - "Perplexity - the measure LLM is surprised when it predicts next word. For example: I love to eat --- if LLM selects as next word "fruits" it will be less surprising than if LLM selects as next word "metal". It is better to have lower perplexity score. Cross Entropy is the measure how well model match true labels. So if the next word is "cat" and LLM assigns 0.5 to it then cross entropy value is -log(0.5) = 0.69 and if it assigns 0.9 probability to word cat then cross entropy value is - log(0.9"See full answer

Patrick B. - "Clarification I would first try to understand what FB Marketplace is since I haven't really used it more than a few times. My understanding is the following Launched 2-3 years ago in the US, it is similar to web classified services such as Craigslist The sellers are not businesses but rather individuals, primarily in local areas Broad range of products with no particular focus: ranging from electronics, furniture, used cars to even apartment for rent. Sometimes posters are willin"See full answer

Vivek S. - "Let me tell you about the time where I pivoted strategies and we launched a paid loyalty program Instead of a free one. This was a time at Reddoorz when we were gearing up to launch a loyalty program to drive sustainable business by creating a loyal user base. Initially , we had decided to launch a program where users can Opt-In for free. The idea was to get On-Board at least 40% of repeat user base into the loyalty program to drive retention. Competitive bench marking also led to our inclinat"See full answer

I C. - "Clarifying questions To confirm, stories are available for 24 hrs What is the target increase for stories? Will we be applying this change globally vs. only in the close friends story view? Do we have any particular OKRs that we are trying to achieve? Mission Facebook is focused on creating and connecting communities. Instagram fits within FB's portfolio of products as it connects individuals often through a more creative and light-hearted medium"See full answer

Fahad K. - "Alright, let's think through this change of moving the 'like' button to a menu under three dots on photos I'll start by aligning this change with Facebook's mission, analyze key insights, define the product mission for this update, Identify the eco-system (n-sided marketplace) Look at the effects on the eco-systems, Effects on their needs and pain points. Identify the most important actors and most important actions Come up with some metrics that we may be using to"See full answer